9.3% —
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Darling Range (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Darling Range, which has seen very few changes in its linguistic makeup since 2011. Only 9.3% of residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, making up 85.7% of the population. This means the area is much less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, with only 0.7% of people speaking little or no English.
9.3% —
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.7% —
Lower than 75% 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Darling Range (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51902/darling-range/topic/language