Italian
13 speakers
It has grown by about three quarters since 2016.
Tumby Bay, South Australia
The 2021 Census found 31 people in Tumby Bay speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Italian is the largest group. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. It's in the bottom 100 of 542 local government areas for language diversity.
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
13 speakers
It has grown by about three quarters since 2016.
7 speakers
Its speaker count has grown by about three quarters since 2016.
4 speakers
About 0.1 per cent of all residents.
In the City of Adelaide, a language other than English is at least twice as common. Tumby Bay is 60th of 70 across South Australia.
Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.
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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.
The headline 1.0% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 191 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 7.4%, while measuring only those who answered gives 1.1%.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
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