Punjabi
1,568 speakers
Punjabi is spoken by 1,568 of our residents at home, 1.6% of Tea Tree Gully.
We are Tea Tree Gully
14 per cent.
About 14 in every 100 Tea Tree Gully residents speak a language other than English at home, across 116 languages.
- Our population
- 97,907
- Speak another language
- 13,409
- Languages at home
- 116
- Growth since last census
- +25.7%
13k of us — 13.7% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Punjabi, Italian and Mandarin. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In South Australia
#18
of 70 South Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #138 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Italian
1,391 speakers
Italian is spoken by 1,391 of our residents at home, 1.4% of Tea Tree Gully.
Mandarin
1,138 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 1,138 of our residents at home, 1.2% of Tea Tree Gully.
The languages of Tea Tree Gully
116 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
+205.1% since last census
We share this portrait because a council below the South Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 13k of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.
Punjabi grew 205.1% since the last census, to 1,568 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
22.5% of us were born overseas, across 124 countries.
- 01England7,715-9.7%
- 02India2,926+128%
- 03Italy974-11.3%
- 04China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)925-6.9%
- 05Scotland760-11.2%
- 06Philippines659+54.3%
- 07Germany624-20.2%
- 08New Zealand574+10.0%
- 09South Africa478+19.5%
- 10Sri Lanka439+74.2%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Tea Tree Gully at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs44,776+31.6%
- 02Christianity42,995-15.3%
- 03Hinduism2,097+99.9%
- 04Islam1,582+72.9%
- 05Buddhism1,066+19.2%
- 06Judaism20-44.4%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 19 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Holden HillTop language — Punjabi35%1,306
- ModburyTop language — Punjabi33%1,824
- DernancourtTop language — Italian24%961
- Modbury NorthTop language — Punjabi20%1,155
- Modbury HeightsTop language — Punjabi18%1,267
- Hope Valley (SA)Top language — Italian17%1,392
- Highbury (SA)Top language — Italian15%1,054
- St Agnes (SA)Top language — Italian15%605
- RidgehavenTop language — Punjabi13%570
- Golden GroveTop language — Mandarin9%944
- Wynn ValeTop language — Mandarin8%652
- Redwood ParkTop language — Italian7%367
- GreenwithTop language — Italian6%630
- Surrey DownsTop language — Spanish6%195
- Tea Tree GullyTop language — Italian6%192
- Banksia ParkTop language — German4%132
- VistaTop language — Kurdish4%38
- Fairview ParkTop language — Italian3%116
- Yatala ValeTop language — Italian3%9
- 19 suburbs in Tea Tree Gully. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Tea Tree Gully 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
- Tea Tree Gully
- 13.7%
- South Australia
- 16.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
13.7% of Tea Tree Gully 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. 13.7% is 13,409 residents as a share of all 97,907 of us. A further 2,729 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 16.5%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 14.1%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Tea Tree Gully, 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 Tea Tree Gully 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.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Tea Tree Gully.