4.1% ▼ -20.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maryvale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Maryvale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken by 85.5% of people in Maryvale. The area is much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with far fewer people using a language other than English at home compared to national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.1% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the Australian average of 22.3%. While few people speak other languages, 0.8% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
0.8% ▲ —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Maryvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31782/maryvale/topic/language