6.8% ▼ -46.2%
Lower than 79% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Macquarie · Federal Electorate
Language in Macquarie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 6.8% of people in Macquarie speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other places in Australia. The share of people using another language has fallen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 89.3% of residents, while small numbers speak Italian, Mandarin, Arabic or Punjabi. Only 0.7% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.7% ▲ +7.5%
Lower than 83% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED127/macquarie/topic/language