City of Port Adelaide Enfield
Language used at home
In City of Port Adelaide Enfield, 32.2509 of people used a language other than English at home in 2016.
City of Port Adelaide Enfield's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
City of Port Adelaide Enfield's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
Total population
| Language used at home - Summary | ||||||||
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| City of Port Adelaide Enfield - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2016 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District % | Number | % | Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District % | 2011 to 2016 | |
| Speaks English only | 74,956 | 61.8 | 51.4 | 36500 | 75,284 | 66.7 | 54.4 | -328 |
 Non-English total | 39,099 | 32.3 | 43.4 | 36501 | 31,566 | 28.0 | 42.4 | +7,533 |
| Not stated | 7,179 | 5.9 | 5.2 | 36502 | 5,966 | 5.3 | 3.2 | +1,213 |
| Total Population | 121,234 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 112,816 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +8,418 | |
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing (opens a new window) 2011 and 2016. Compiled and presented by .id (opens a new window)(informed decisions).
| Language used at home - Ranked by size | ||||||||
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| City of Port Adelaide Enfield - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2016 | 2011 | Change | |||||
| Language (excludes English) | Number | % | Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District % | Number | % | Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District % | 2011 to 2016 | |
| Vietnamese | 6,218 | 5.1 | 16.6 | 36037 | 5,419 | 4.8 | 15.8 | +799 |
| Mandarin | 3,421 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 36007 | 1,968 | 1.7 | 1.7 | +1,453 |
| Italian | 2,104 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 36022 | 2,437 | 2.2 | 2.4 | -333 |
| Greek | 2,053 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 36015 | 2,176 | 1.9 | 1.8 | -123 |
| Punjabi | 1,793 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 36088 | 906 | 0.8 | 0.4 | +887 |
| Gujarati | 1,676 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 36064 | 875 | 0.8 | 0.1 | +801 |
| Cantonese | 1,557 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 36006 | 1,406 | 1.2 | 2.7 | +151 |
| Filipino/Tagalog | 1,378 | 1.1 | 3.7 | 36011 | 1,045 | 0.9 | 3.3 | +333 |
| Hindi | 1,318 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 36016 | 721 | 0.6 | 0.2 | +597 |
| Hazaraghi
| 1,205 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 36114 | 345 | 0.3 | -- | +860 |
| Arabic | 1,084 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 36004 | 945 | 0.8 | 0.9 | +139 |
| Dari | 909 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 36113 | 655 | 0.6 | 0.1 | +254 |
| Polish | 766 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 36028 | 936 | 0.8 | 1.5 | -170 |
| Serbian | 701 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 36032 | 703 | 0.6 | 0.5 | -2 |
| Malayalam | 677 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 36077 | 429 | 0.4 | 0.3 | +248 |
| Persian | 670 | 0.6 | -- | 36019 | 315 | 0.3 | 0.1 | +355 |
| Khmer | 637 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 36024 | 664 | 0.6 | 0.8 | -27 |
| Spanish | 557 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 36034 | 405 | 0.4 | 0.2 | +152 |
| Russian | 517 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 36030 | 563 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -46 |
| Croatian | 449 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 36009 | 507 | 0.4 | 0.5 | -58 |
| Urdu | 449 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 36108 | 112 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +337 |
| Tamil | 431 | 0.4 | -- | 36035 | 237 | 0.2 | 0.1 | +194 |
| Bengali | 429 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 36050 | 237 | 0.2 | 0.2 | +192 |
| Korean | 419 | 0.3 | -- | 36025 | 296 | 0.3 | 0.4 | +123 |
| German | 413 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 36014 | 535 | 0.5 | 0.4 | -122 |
| Bosnian | 370 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 36051 | 401 | 0.4 | 0.7 | -31 |
| Nepali | 348 | 0.3 | -- | 36081 | 262 | 0.2 | -- | +86 |
| Sinhalese | 308 | 0.3 | -- | 36033 | 182 | 0.2 | -- | +126 |
| Non-verbal so described | 295 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 36082 | 183 | 0.2 | -- | +112 |
| Telugu | 247 | 0.2 | -- | 36099 | 114 | 0.1 | 0.3 | +133 |
| Thai | 227 | 0.2 | -- | 36102 | 146 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +81 |
| Swahili | 216 | 0.2 | -- | 36096 | 202 | 0.2 | 0.3 | +14 |
| Dinka | 193 | 0.2 | -- | 36059 | 206 | 0.2 | 0.2 | -13 |
| Australian Indigenous Languages | 180 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36005 | 186 | 0.2 | 0.4 | -6 |
| Chin Haka | 176 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 36003 | 15 | 0.0 | -- | +161 |
| Ukrainian | 172 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 36107 | 210 | 0.2 | 0.6 | -38 |
| Pashto | 169 | 0.1 | -- | 36086 | 54 | 0.0 | -- | +115 |
| Japanese | 160 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36023 | 140 | 0.1 | -- | +20 |
| Chinese, nfd | 160 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36055 | 170 | 0.2 | 0.4 | -10 |
| Somali | 155 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36094 | 191 | 0.2 | 0.8 | -36 |
| Malay | 151 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 36076 | 177 | 0.2 | -- | -26 |
| Min Nan (incl.Hokkien) | 147 | 0.1 | -- | 36068 | 150 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -3 |
| French | 140 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36013 | 137 | 0.1 | 0.2 | +3 |
| Marathi | 134 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36080 | 84 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +50 |
| Hungarian | 125 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36017 | 151 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -26 |
| Portuguese | 121 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36029 | 87 | 0.1 | -- | +34 |
| Dutch | 120 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36010 | 139 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -19 |
| Auslan | 115 | 0.1 | -- | 36049 | 111 | 0.1 | -- | +4 |
| Maltese | 114 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 36027 | 132 | 0.1 | 0.3 | -18 |
| Albanian | 112 | 0.1 | -- | 36045 | 90 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +22 |
| Indonesian | 109 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 36018 | 86 | 0.1 | 0.5 | +23 |
| Afrikaans | 96 | 0.1 | -- | 36044 | 114 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -18 |
| Kurdish | 93 | 0.1 | -- | 36073 | 58 | 0.1 | -- | +35 |
| Amharic | 90 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 36046 | 63 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +27 |
| Romanian | 89 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 36089 | 102 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -13 |
| Uygur | 88 | 0.1 | -- | 36109 | 73 | 0.1 | 0.1 | +15 |
| Kannada | 81 | 0.1 | -- | 36071 | 50 | 0.0 | -- | +31 |
| Turkish | 79 | 0.1 | -- | 36036 | 75 | 0.1 | -- | +4 |
| Shona | 73 | 0.1 | -- | 36091 | 39 | 0.0 | -- | +34 |
| Macedonian | 60 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36026 | 70 | 0.1 | 0.2 | -10 |
| Tigrinya | 60 | 0.0 | -- | 36112 | 33 | 0.0 | -- | +27 |
| Oromo | 49 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36085 | 24 | 0.0 | -- | +25 |
| Burmese | 47 | 0.0 | -- | 36053 | 111 | 0.1 | -- | -64 |
| Serbo-Croatian Yugoslavian, so described | 46 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36090 | 84 | 0.1 | 0.1 | -38 |
| Czech | 43 | 0.0 | -- | 36056 | 28 | 0.0 | -- | +15 |
| Slovene | 36 | 0.0 | -- | 36093 | 34 | 0.0 | -- | +2 |
| Latvian | 34 | 0.0 | -- | 36075 | 55 | 0.0 | -- | -21 |
| Swedish | 31 | 0.0 | -- | 36097 | 38 | 0.0 | -- | -7 |
| Tongan | 29 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36105 | 20 | 0.0 | -- | +9 |
| Bulgarian | 28 | 0.0 | -- | 36052 | 36 | 0.0 | -- | -8 |
| Lao | 25 | 0.0 | -- | 36074 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | +11 |
| Slovak | 21 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 36092 | 21 | 0.0 | -- | 0 |
| Finnish | 20 | 0.0 | -- | 36063 | 19 | 0.0 | -- | +1 |
| Fijian | 19 | 0.0 | -- | 36061 | 23 | 0.0 | -- | -4 |
| Indo-Aryan, nfd | 16 | 0.0 | -- | 36070 | 388 | 0.3 | 0.2 | -372 |
| Nuer | 14 | 0.0 | -- | 36084 | 38 | 0.0 | -- | -24 |
| Samoan | 13 | 0.0 | -- | 36031 | 17 | 0.0 | -- | -4 |
| Armenian | 13 | 0.0 | -- | 36047 | 6 | 0.0 | -- | +7 |
| Danish | 12 | 0.0 | -- | 36057 | 20 | 0.0 | -- | -8 |
| Māori (New Zealand) | 12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 36079 | 11 | 0.0 | -- | +1 |
| Norwegian | 11 | 0.0 | -- | 36083 | 9 | 0.0 | -- | +2 |
| Wu | 11 | 0.0 | -- | 36110 | 3 | 0.0 | -- | +8 |
| Estonian | 10 | 0.0 | -- | 36060 | 14 | 0.0 | -- | -4 |
| Hebrew | 10 | 0.0 | -- | 36066 | 3 | 0.0 | -- | +7 |
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Excludes languages spoken at home by fewer than 10 people.
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of City of Port Adelaide Enfield in 2016 compared to Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District shows that there was a larger proportion of people who used English only, and a smaller proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 61.8% of the population used English only, and 32.3 used a non-English language, compared with 51.4% and 43.4% respectively for Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in City of Port Adelaide Enfield was Vietnamese, with 5.1% of the population, or 6,218 people using this language at home.
The major differences between the languages used at home for the population of City of Port Adelaide Enfield and Ottoway - Gepps Cross and District in 2016 were:
- A larger percentage using Gujarati at home (1.4% compared to 0.1%)
- A larger percentage using Mandarin at home (2.8% compared to 1.7%)
- A smaller percentage using Vietnamese at home (5.1% compared to 16.6%)
- A smaller percentage using Filipino/Tagalog at home (1.1% compared to 3.7%)
Emerging groups
Between 2011 and 2016, the number of people who used a language other than English at home increased by 7,533 or 23.9%, and the number of people who used English only decreased by 328 or 0.4%.
The largest changes in the languages used by the population in City of Port Adelaide Enfield between 2011 and 2016 were for those using:
- Mandarin (+1,453 persons)
- Punjabi (+887 persons)
- Hazaraghi (+860 persons)
- Gujarati (+801 persons)