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Onkaparinga, South Australia

Languages spoken in Onkaparinga

Most of Onkaparinga speaks English at home, but about 11,000 people don't, the 2021 Census shows, and Mandarin leads among them. Every language besides English has fewer speakers than one resident in 100. Onkaparinga's share is less than half the national share.

Residents
175,470
Speak another language
10,900
Languages at home
125
Change since 2016
+13.5%

Which communities in Onkaparinga are largest?

Mandarin leads a short list of small communities.

Mandarin

831 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Polish

605 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Arabic

595 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.3 per cent of residents.

What are the five most spoken languages other than English in Onkaparinga?

The mix has changed less here than in faster-growing councils.

Top five by speakers at home, each with its movement on 2016. Show more to see the rest.

  1. 01
    Mandarin
    831+11.1%
  2. 02
    Polish
    605-9.6%
  3. 03
    Arabic
    595+24.0%
  4. 04
    German
    575-19.1%
  5. 05
    Greek
    561-6.7%

How does Onkaparinga's share measure up to South Australia?

Across South Australia, a language other than English is at least twice as common. That puts Onkaparinga in the upper half of South Australia's councils.

Onkaparinga
6.2%
South Australia
16.9%
Australia
21.3%

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

See where Onkaparinga sits on the diversity index.

Where in Onkaparinga is a language other than English most common?

Darlington tops the list, but the spread across 47 suburbs is narrow.

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

Where were Onkaparinga's residents born?

After Australia, most residents born overseas came from England.

Country of birth

19.2% born overseas, across 128 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    16,992-1.7%
  2. 02
    Scotland
    1,819-2.8%
  3. 03
    New Zealand
    1,697+5.3%
  4. 04
    India
    1,157+40.8%
  5. 05
    Philippines
    1,155+35.6%
  6. 06
    Germany
    1,075-6.3%
  7. 07
    South Africa
    1,065+18.1%
  8. 08
    Netherlands
    793-4.8%
  9. 09
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    686-0.6%
  10. 10
    Poland
    520+2.4%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    100,074+35.6%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    61,736-18.6%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    1,236-4.2%
  4. 04
    Islam
    1,029+34.3%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    919+54.7%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    48+17.1%

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: 6,907 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 6.2% sits below the 10.1% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 6.5% measured across respondents only.

Figures for Onkaparinga itself aren't affected by the small gap between summed suburbs and ABS national totals. Unnamed ABS categories are in every total and out of every ranked list.

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