2.8% ▲ +40.8%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Emu Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Emu Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Emu Point, with very little change in the linguistic makeup of the area over the last decade. Nearly 92% of residents speak only English at home, which is far more common than in the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.8% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. Despite this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
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 Emu Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50486/emu-point/topic/language