1.3% ▼ -54.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rathdowney · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rathdowney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Rathdowney, where 90.9% of people use it as their only language at home. This reflects a very low level of linguistic diversity compared to the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.3% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area has a slightly higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though this remains 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 Rathdowney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32394/rathdowney/topic/language