8.6% ▲ +49.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Urraween · Suburb / Locality
Language in Urraween
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Urraween now use a language other than English at home compared to previous years. While 8.6% of residents speak another language, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 87.1% of the area, and only 0.9% of people speak little or no English. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
0.9% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Urraween [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32923/urraween/topic/language