Tumby Bay, South Australia

Languages other than English in Tumby Bay

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.

Residents
3,020
Speak another language
31
Languages at home
5
Change since 2016
+106.7%

What's spoken in Tumby Bay apart from English?

None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.

Italian

13 speakers

It has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

German

7 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

Indonesian

4 speakers

About 0.1 per cent of all residents.

Where does Tumby Bay sit against the City of Adelaide?

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.

Tumby Bay
1.0%
City of Adelaide
34.4%
South Australia
16.9%

Every figure leaves unanswered questions out of the count, so the areas compare like for like.

Compare Tumby Bay with every council on the diversity index.

Which suburbs of Tumby Bay have the most speakers of other languages?

Every suburb here has a page of its own.

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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