10.5% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Merkanooka · Suburb / Locality
Language in Merkanooka
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 12 percentage points separates Merkanooka from the national average in language diversity. While 10.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is far below the Australian figure. Most people here speak only English, and no one reports speaking little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home by 93% of residents. While 10.5% of people use another language—which is much higher than in most similar areas—this is still well below the Western Australian average.
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 Merkanooka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50937/merkanooka/topic/language