6.1% ▲ +29.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Merewether · Suburb / Locality
Language in Merewether
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 91% of people in Merewether, making it a very linguistically uniform area. While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, this is still far below the levels seen across New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, though this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Very few people struggle with the local tongue, with only 0.4% speaking little or no English.
0.4% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Merewether [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12584/merewether/topic/language