3.4% ▲ +34.3%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Myall Lakes · State Electorate
Language in Myall Lakes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people use a language other than English in Myall Lakes, placing it among the lowest for this trait in the region. Only 3.4% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below both the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.7% of the area. The proportion of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure at just 0.4%, a rate that has barely changed since 2016.
0.4% ▲ +36.5%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Myall Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10057/myall-lakes/topic/language