3.1% ▲ +1.1%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Finniss · State Electorate
Language in Finniss
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 92.6% of people in Finniss. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation, with a very small number of residents speaking a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.1% of residents use another language at home, a figure that is far below the national average and has barely changed since 2011. Consistent with this, those who speak little or no English make up just 0.2% of the population.
0.2% ▼ -70.6%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Finniss [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40014/finniss/topic/language