6.0% ▼ -48.8%
Lower than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mackillop · State Electorate
Language in Mackillop
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Mackillop use a language other than English at home, with only 6% doing so. This is much lower than most similar areas and far below the national figure. The use of other languages has also fallen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 86.7% of residents, which helps explain why only 1.3% of people speak little or no English. This figure is a little below the national and state averages and has barely changed since 2016.
1.3% ▲ +109.4%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Mackillop [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40029/mackillop/topic/language