Mount Barker, South Australia

Languages other than English in Mount Barker

English is the only language spoken at home by about 36,000 people in Mount Barker, according to the 2021 Census, and German is the most common of the others. Every language other than English sits below one in 100 residents. Mount Barker's share is well under the national share.

Residents
38,964
Speak another language
1,608
Languages at home
71
Change since 2016
+48.1%

Who speaks something other than English in Mount Barker?

German leads a short list of small communities.

German

174 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Mandarin

136 speakers

The community has more than doubled since 2016.

Afrikaans

135 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by more than half since 2016.

How much less multilingual is Mount Barker than South Australia?

Across South Australia, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Mount Barker ranks 30th in South Australia, in the top half.

Mount Barker
4.1%
South Australia
16.9%
Australia
21.3%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

Mount Barker's place on the diversity index.

Where in Mount Barker are other languages most common?

From Mount Barker down to Kanmantoo, the gap is modest.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

A note on method: 1,556 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 4.1% sits below the 8.1% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 4.3% measured across respondents only.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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