Vietnamese
5,838 speakers
Vietnamese is spoken by 5,838 of our residents at home, 4.0% of Salisbury.
We are Salisbury
32 per cent.
Nearly 32 in every 100 Salisbury residents speak a language other than English at home. It is among the highest shares of any council in South Australia.
- Our population
- 147,621
- Speak another language
- 46,903
- Languages at home
- 147
- Growth since last census
- +25.0%
One in 3 of us speaks a language other than English at home: 47k people, most often Vietnamese, Punjabi and Hazaraghi. That is not a fringe of the community. It is a standing share of every audience anyone here is trying to reach.
In South Australia
#6
of 70 South Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #66 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Punjabi
3,653 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 3,653 of our residents at home, 2.5% of Salisbury.
Hazaraghi
3,537 speakers
Hazaraghi is spoken by 3,537 of our residents at home, 2.4% of Salisbury.
The languages of Salisbury
147 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
Punjabi
+182.7% since last census
We share this portrait because Salisbury is, genuinely, not an “average” council — the share here is 1.9 times the South Australia figure. Services designed for the median South Australia resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Punjabi grew 182.7% since the last census, to 3,653 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
32.2% of us were born overseas, across 142 countries.
- 01England7,042-11.7%
- 02India6,967+84.0%
- 03Vietnam4,018+14.4%
- 04Afghanistan3,665+65.2%
- 05Philippines2,650+24.7%
- 06Cambodia1,729+21.9%
- 07Pakistan1,225+124%
- 08Myanmar1,207+71.0%
- 09China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)1,195-19.7%
- 10Italy1,063-13.9%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Salisbury at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs56,414+25.8%
- 02Christianity55,442-16.2%
- 03Islam11,213+70.4%
- 04Buddhism6,985+8.3%
- 05Hinduism6,417+56.1%
- 06Judaism19-9.5%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 27 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Parafield GardensTop language — Vietnamese44%8,060
- Mawson LakesTop language — Vietnamese41%5,733
- Salisbury (SA)Top language — Nepali41%3,578
- PoorakaTop language — Vietnamese39%2,932
- Salisbury DownsTop language — Vietnamese38%2,341
- Burton (SA)Top language — Vietnamese34%2,292
- St Kilda (SA)Top language — Vietnamese34%98
- DirekTop language — Khmer34%224
- ParalowieTop language — Vietnamese31%5,296
- Brahma LodgeTop language — Nepali30%1,020
- Salisbury PlainTop language — Nepali30%387
- Para Hills WestTop language — Punjabi30%971
- Ingle FarmTop language — Punjabi29%2,755
- Walkley HeightsTop language — Punjabi29%1,032
- Valley ViewTop language — Punjabi28%1,795
- Para HillsTop language — Arabic26%1,752
- Para VistaTop language — Arabic24%720
- Salisbury NorthTop language — Vietnamese24%2,516
- Salisbury EastTop language — Hazaraghi21%1,923
- Salisbury ParkTop language — Nepali17%388
- Gulfview HeightsTop language — Italian17%609
- Globe Derby ParkTop language — Italian10%37
- Salisbury HeightsTop language — Italian9%418
- EdinburghTop language — Cantonese5%18
- BolivarTop language — Bislama3%8
- Parafield0%0
- Green Fields0%0
- 27 suburbs in Salisbury. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Salisbury 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
- Salisbury
- 31.8%
- South Australia
- 16.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
31.8% of Salisbury 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. 31.8% is 46,903 residents as a share of all 147,621 of us. A further 6,782 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 36.4%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 33.3%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Salisbury, 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 Salisbury 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.
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