1.6% ▼ -73.3%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Minnie Water · Urban Centre
Language in Minnie Water
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower percentage of people speak a language other than English in Minnie Water (L) compared to the rest of the state. Only 1.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This reflects a community where English is almost universally the primary language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 94.7% of the population, and the share of people using other languages has fallen 4.4 percentage points since 2011. This is consistent with the fact that 0.0% of residents speak little or no English, a figure well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Minnie Water [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122087/minnie-water/topic/language