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40th of 542 local government areas for language diversity

Languages spoken in Salisbury

Vietnamese and Punjabi lead the languages of Salisbury, where nearly one in three residents spoke something other than English at home at the 2021 Census. 101 languages each have ten or more speakers here. In the City of Adelaide, the share is much the same as in Salisbury.

Residents
147,621
Speak another language
46,903
Languages at home
147
Change since 2016
+25.0%

What's changed in Salisbury since the 2016 Census?

Punjabi has more than doubled since 2016, and Hazaraghi has more than doubled. Speakers of other languages overall grew more modestly.

  1. 01
    Punjabi
    3,653+183%
  2. 02
    Hazaraghi
    3,537+141%
  3. 03
    Urdu
    780+115%
  4. 04
    Telugu
    324+95.2%
  5. 05
    Sinhalese
    427+88.1%
  6. 06
    Chin Haka
    576+81.1%
  7. 07
    Zomi
    286+76.5%
  8. 08
    Gujarati
    1,718+70.6%

What are Salisbury's three biggest languages?

Here are today's three largest language communities.

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Vietnamese

5,838 speakers

About 4 per cent of all residents.

Punjabi

3,653 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has more than doubled.

Hazaraghi

3,537 speakers

It has more than doubled since 2016.

How does Salisbury compare with Australia as a whole now?

Australia as a whole comes in under Salisbury's share. Salisbury is in the top ten of South Australia's 70 councils.

Salisbury
31.8%
Australia
21.3%
City of Adelaide
34.4%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Find Salisbury on the diversity index.

How has each of Salisbury's top languages changed?

The chip beside each count is the change since 2016. Totals include broad ABS categories like "Chinese, nfd" that the list leaves out.

  1. 01
    Vietnamese
    5,838+8.0%
  2. 02
    Punjabi
    3,653+183%
  3. 03
    Hazaraghi
    3,537+141%
  4. 04
    Khmer
    2,605+11.8%
  5. 05
    Arabic
    2,468+44.0%
  6. 06
    Nepali
    2,088+31.4%
  7. 07
    Gujarati
    1,718+70.6%
  8. 08
    Italian
    1,627-18.8%
  9. 09
    Mandarin
    1,452-18.4%
  10. 10
    Dari
    1,391+4.1%

How do Salisbury's suburbs compare?

The share runs from more than two in five residents in Parafield Gardens to 9.4 per cent of residents in Salisbury Heights.

The suburb names link through to their own figures.

What do birthplaces show about Salisbury?

Among residents born overseas, England leads.

Country of birth

32.2% born overseas, across 142 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    7,042-11.7%
  2. 02
    India
    6,967+84.0%
  3. 03
    Vietnam
    4,018+14.4%
  4. 04
    Afghanistan
    3,665+65.2%
  5. 05
    Philippines
    2,650+24.7%
  6. 06
    Cambodia
    1,729+21.9%
  7. 07
    Pakistan
    1,225+124%
  8. 08
    Myanmar
    1,207+71.0%
  9. 09
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    1,195-19.7%
  10. 10
    Italy
    1,063-13.9%

Religious affiliation

Reported affiliation, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    56,414+25.8%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    55,442-16.2%
  3. 03
    Islam
    11,213+70.4%
  4. 04
    Buddhism
    6,985+8.3%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    6,417+56.1%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    19-9.5%

Where is Salisbury on the language map?

Salisbury shaded by the share of residents speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

Other sources sometimes quote 36.4% for Salisbury. That figure treats the 6,782 unanswered forms as another language. This page uses 31.8%, and 33.3% is the share among those who answered.

Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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