10.6% ▲ +72.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Meadow Springs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Meadow Springs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Meadow Springs compared to the rest of the country. Only 10.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 84% of people speak only English, 10.6% use another language at home, including small numbers who speak Tagalog, Mandarin, and Punjabi. Very few residents struggle with English, with only 0.8% speaking little or no English, which is a little below the state and national figures.
0.8% ▼ -27.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Meadow Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50922/meadow-springs/topic/language