4.8% —
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Macedon (Northern Victoria) · State Electorate
Language in Macedon (Northern Victoria)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 90% of people in Macedon speak only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria, with very few residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.8% of people use another language at home, a figure that is far below the Victorian average of 27.6% and has barely changed since 2016. Consistent with this, only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, which is much lower than most other areas.
0.4% ▼ -15.5%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Macedon (Northern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24504/macedon/topic/language