23.5% ▲ +77.4%
Higher than 65% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Makin · Federal Electorate
Language in Makin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Makin than in most similar areas. About 23.5% of the population use another language at home, a figure that has risen by 10 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 72.7% of residents, though Punjabi, Vietnamese, Arabic and Mandarin are also spoken. About 3.7% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the South Australian figure of 2.7%.
3.7% ▲ +25.5%
Higher than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Makin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED407/makin/topic/language