3.7% ▼ -54.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Metcalfe · Suburb / Locality
Language in Metcalfe
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90.5% of people in Metcalfe. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or country, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.7% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result that is well below both the state and national figures.
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 Metcalfe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21671/metcalfe/topic/language