40.4% ▼ -20.7%
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 50.9%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mitchell · Federal Electorate
Language in Mitchell
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Forty percent of residents in Mitchell speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country. While this diversity is high, the proportion of people using other languages has fallen 11 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 56.9% of people, followed by Mandarin at 8.3% and Cantonese at 3.3%. While 40.4% of the community use another language at home, the number of people who speak little or no English is low at 4.9%, which is about the same as the state average.
4.9% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 80% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 Mitchell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED129/mitchell/topic/language