2.5% ▲ +37.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Macclesfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Macclesfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle of similar areas for linguistic variety, Macclesfield is a place where almost everyone speaks English. Only 2.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.9% of the population. While a tiny 0.4% of people speak little or no English—which is higher than in most similar areas—this remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▲ —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Macclesfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40799/macclesfield/topic/language