German
174 speakers
German is spoken by 174 of our residents at home, 0.4% of Mount Barker.
We are Mount Barker
4 per cent.
4 in every 100 Mount Barker residents speak a language other than English at home. 1,608 people, in 71 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.
- Our population
- 38,964
- Speak another language
- 1,608
- Languages at home
- 71
- Growth since last census
- +48.1%
Most of us speak English at home. 1,608 of us do not, across 71 languages, most often German, Mandarin and Afrikaans. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.
In South Australia
#34
of 70 South Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #292 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Mandarin
136 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 136 of our residents at home, 0.3% of Mount Barker.
Afrikaans
135 speakers
Afrikaans is spoken by 135 of our residents at home, 0.3% of Mount Barker.
The languages of Mount Barker
71 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
German
+13.7% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the South Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 1,608 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
German grew 13.7% since the last census, to 174 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
13.1% of us were born overseas, across 71 countries.
- 01England2,378+15.0%
- 02South Africa340+70.0%
- 03New Zealand320+28.0%
- 04Germany243+15.2%
- 05Scotland190+15.2%
- 06India173+92.2%
- 07Netherlands152+8.6%
- 08Philippines142+32.7%
- 09United States of America114+34.1%
- 10China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)81+238%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Mount Barker at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs21,368+53.8%
- 02Christianity14,644-8.3%
- 03Buddhism314+10.2%
- 04Hinduism107+8.1%
- 05Islam96+174%
- 06Judaism7-36.4%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 21 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Mount Barker (SA)Top language — Afrikaans6%1,061
- Biggs FlatTop language — German6%12
- HahndorfTop language — German5%145
- Mount Barker SpringsTop language — Czech5%18
- FlaxleyTop language — German3%8
- NairneTop language — German3%161
- MeadowsTop language — German3%50
- WistowTop language — Dutch2%7
- LittlehamptonTop language — Dutch2%82
- Macclesfield (SA)Top language — German2%27
- PaechtownTop language — Cantonese1%3
- EchungaTop language — Italian1%16
- Dorset ValeTop language — German1%5
- CallingtonTop language — Dutch1%5
- BlakistonTop language — Welsh1%3
- KanmantooTop language — Ngarrindjeri1%5
- Harrogate0%0
- Brukunga0%0
- Bull Creek (SA)0%0
- Dawesley0%0
- Bugle Ranges0%0
- 21 suburbs in Mount Barker. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Mount Barker shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Mount Barker
- 4.1%
- South Australia
- 16.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
4.1% of Mount Barker residents speak a language other than English at home, against 16.9% for South Australia and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted. 4.1% is 1,608 residents as a share of all 38,964 of us. A further 1,556 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 8.1%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 4.3%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Mount Barker, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Mount Barker figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Mount Barker.