5.3% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Merryburn · Suburb / Locality
Language in Merryburn
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Merryburn compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, only 5.3% of residents here do so.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 87.8% of the area, with Vietnamese being the next most common at 2.6%. Despite the overall trend, the 1.6% of people who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.6% ▲ —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Merryburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31815/merryburn/topic/language