10.0% ▲ +45.7%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Margaret River · Suburb / Locality
Language in Margaret River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people now speak a language other than English in Margaret River, though the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country. Only 10% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 82.8% of people speak only English, the 10% who use another language is much higher than in most similar areas. This includes small numbers of Italian, Mandarin, and Tagalog speakers, though only 1.4% of the population speaks little or no English.
1.4% ▲ +25.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Margaret River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50903/margaret-river/topic/language