10.7% ▲ +32.3%
Lower than 61% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dunkley · Federal Electorate
Language in Dunkley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the only language spoken at home by 84.4% of people in Dunkley. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the state and the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 10.7% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This has risen 2.6 points since 2011, yet the proportion of people speaking little or no English remains very low at 1.3%.
1.3% ▲ +26.6%
Lower than 61% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Dunkley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED212/dunkley/topic/language