2.6% ▼ -92.2%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Moonee Beach West · Urban Centre
Language in Moonee Beach West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Moonee Beach West compared to most similar areas. This shift is striking, as the proportion of people speaking other languages has plunged by 31 percentage points since 2011 to just 2.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 94% of residents, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 26.6%. While most areas are more linguistically uniform, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is actually much higher here than in similar areas, rising to 1.5% since 2016.
1.5% ▲ +398.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Moonee Beach West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121081/moonee-beach-west/topic/language