3.3% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Merricks · Suburb / Locality
Language in Merricks
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the sole dominant language in Merricks, where 92.4% of residents speak it exclusively. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria, with very few people using a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.3% of people use another language at home, a figure far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Despite this, a slightly higher proportion of residents speak little or no English compared to most similar areas, though this remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Merricks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21662/merricks/topic/language