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Kensington, Norwood Payneham and St Peters

Languages spoken in Kensington (SA)

Mandarin is the most common language after English in Kensington, where about 380 people speak another language at home, the 2021 Census shows. Kensington is about level with Australia as a whole. The census lists 33 languages spoken at home here.

Residents
1,772
Speak another language
21.2%-6.5%
Languages spoken
33
Born overseas
31.7%

What languages are spoken in Kensington?

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
  1. 01
    Mandarin
    65-35.0%
  2. 02
    Italian
    44-20.0%
  3. 03
    Korean
    43+7.5%
  4. 04
    Spanish
    24+100%
  5. 05
    Telugu
    21
  6. 06
    Gujarati
    17+13.3%
  7. 07
    Punjabi
    17+240%
  8. 08
    Kannada
    11+120%
  9. 09
    Cantonese
    10-56.5%
  10. 10
    Polish
    9-10.0%

Which countries are Kensington's residents from?

Overseas-born residents make up nearly one in three residents, most often from India.

  1. 01
    India
    97+111%
  2. 02
    England
    88-15.4%
  3. 03
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    46-40.3%
  4. 04
    Korea, Republic of (South)
    41+28.1%
  5. 05
    Italy
    37-24.5%
  6. 06
    New Zealand
    23+27.8%
  7. 07
    Colombia
    21
  8. 08
    United States of America
    20+100%
  9. 09
    South Africa
    17+143%
  10. 10
    Sri Lanka
    15+7.1%

Is Kensington more multilingual than Norwood Payneham and St Peters?

The share speaking another language is below the figure for Norwood Payneham and St Peters.

Kensington (SA)
21.2%
Australia
21.3%
Norwood Payneham and St Peters
25.4%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.

What religions are reported in Kensington?

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    842+13.0%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    672-8.4%
  3. 03
    Hinduism
    88+79.6%
  4. 04
    Islam
    33+50.0%
  5. 05
    Buddhism
    15-48.3%

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

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Kensington (SA) is part of Norwood Payneham and St Peters, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.