53.8% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.7%
- 2016: 53.5%
- 2021: 53.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Merrylands West · Suburb / Locality
Language in Merrylands West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 36.9% of Merrylands West, but more than half of the population speaks another language at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state, with a striking 53.8% of residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is the most common second language at 18.2%, while 10.4% of people speak little or no English. This last figure is well above the national average of 3.4%.
10.4% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 10.4%
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 Merrylands West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12600/merrylands-west/topic/language