14.7% ▼ -0.2%
Lower than 51% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mackellar · Federal Electorate
Language in Mackellar
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Middle-of-the-road language diversity defines Mackellar, where 14.7% of people speak a language other than English at home. This figure is well below the national average and has barely changed over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 81.7% of residents, while Mandarin and Italian are the most common other languages at 1.2% each. Only 1.6% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
1.6% ▼ -2.6%
Lower than 54% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Mackellar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED126/mackellar/topic/language