4.8% ▲ +50.4%
Lower than 92% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Calare · Federal Electorate
Language in Calare
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people in Calare speak a language other than English compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this has risen slightly since 2011, English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87.5% of residents, and only 0.6% of people speak little or no English. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%, and the number of people in this position has barely changed since 2016.
0.6% ▲ +5.4%
Lower than 88% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Calare [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED107/calare/topic/language