0.9% ▼ -62.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dowerin · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Dowerin, where language patterns have stayed very stable since 2011. Only 0.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
English and the largest community languages.
The vast majority of residents speak only English, making up 92.2% of the population. Very few people speak little or no English, at 0.0%, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.9% ▼ -62.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Dowerin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50424/dowerin/topic/language