5.2% —
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Collie-Preston (South West) · State Electorate
Language in Collie-Preston (South West)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Collie-Preston compared to most similar areas. Only 5.2% of residents speak a different language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 88.8% of people. Only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
0.6% —
Lower than 83% of state electorate areas.
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 Collie-Preston (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51706/collie-preston/topic/language