17.4% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Menai · Suburb / Locality
Language in Menai
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 80.4% of people in Menai. While this is a high proportion, the area has a much higher share of people using other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.4% of residents speak a language other than English at home, though this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. The most common non-English languages are Greek, Arabic, and Mandarin, while 2.0% of people speak little or no English.
2.0% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Menai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12578/menai/topic/language