29.3% ▲ +34.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mawson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mawson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 66.3% of people in Mawson, though nearly 30% of the area speaks another language at home. This makes Mawson's linguistic mix well above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Roughly 29.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Australian figure. While Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 3.1%, about 2.6% of people speak little or no English.
2.6% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Mawson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80092/mawson/topic/language