3.2% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Melrose · Suburb / Locality
Language in Melrose
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.2% of people in Melrose use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 89.4% of the population. While 0.0% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still well below the national average 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 Melrose [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60394/melrose/topic/language