4.1% ▲ +85.5%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Meander Valley · Council (LGA)
Language in Meander Valley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly double the number of people in Meander Valley now speak a language other than English at home compared to 2011. Despite this rise, only 4.1% of the population uses another language, making it far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.5% of residents. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure and represents a count that has barely changed since 2016.
0.4% ▲ +69.5%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Meander Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA64210/meander-valley/topic/language