3.4% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Iredale · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for almost everyone in Iredale, where only 3.4% of people speak another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average. Life here is very uniform in its speech, with the vast majority of residents using only English.
English and the largest community languages.
Around 87% of residents speak only English, which is far below the national figure for people using other languages. Despite this, the area is noted as having a higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though it remains well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
3.4% —
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Iredale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31406/iredale/topic/language