2.0% ▼ -55.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
McDesme · Suburb / Locality
Language in McDesme
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for almost everyone in McDesme. Only 2% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other places in Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 89.4% of residents speak only English, and the few who use another language at home most commonly speak Italian. Very few people struggle with English, as 0% of the population speaks little or no English, which is well below the Australian average.
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 McDesme [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31789/mcdesme/topic/language