3.1% ▲ +26.5%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Macclesfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Macclesfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 94.3% of people in Macclesfield. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area, with a far lower share of people using another language at home than the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 3.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Despite this, the area has a higher share of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though this remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Macclesfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21561/macclesfield/topic/language