53.7% ▲ +938.9%
Higher than 95% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 52.9%
- 2021: 53.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
McMahon · Federal Electorate
Language in McMahon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in McMahon speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. Over half the population now uses a language other than English, a figure that has jumped 49 percentage points since 2011. This shift makes the area significantly more linguistically diverse than both New South Wales and the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common non-English language, spoken by 14.3% of residents, while 39.2% speak only English. About 13.2% of people speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
13.2% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 McMahon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED128/mcmahon/topic/language