Italian
64 speakers
Spoken at home by 0.5 per cent of residents.
Wattle Range, South Australia
Wattle Range is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 2.4 per cent of residents used another language at home, most often Italian. Every language besides English has fewer speakers than one resident in 100. Wattle Range's share is less than half the national share.
These three top a list of small communities.
Across South Australia, the share speaking another language is more than double. Wattle Range sits in the lower half of South Australia's councils, at 42nd of 70.
Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.
Millicent tops the list, but the spread across 15 suburbs is narrow.
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Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.
How the headline share is counted: 2.4% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 835 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 9.1%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 2.5%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.
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