3.6% ▼ -87.9%
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mawson · State Electorate
Language in Mawson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A sharp 26 percentage point drop in the number of people using a language other than English since 2011 defines the recent trend in Mawson. Today, only 3.6% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91% of the population, and the 0.3% who speak little or no English is among the lowest in the region. This is well below the 3.4% national figure.
0.3% ▼ -88.0%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Mawson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40030/mawson/topic/language