24.5% ▲ +32.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Macgregor · Suburb / Locality
Language in Macgregor
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 72.6% of people in Macgregor. While most residents speak English, nearly one in four people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most other areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, including Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin and Vietnamese. Despite this diversity, the 2.2% who speak little or no English is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
2.2% ▼ -20.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Macgregor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80089/macgregor/topic/language