6.3% ▲ +223.6%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mooney Mooney · Urban Centre
Language in Mooney Mooney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Mooney Mooney compared to the rest of the country. While the proportion of residents using another language at home has risen to 6.3%, this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most of the community uses only English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken by 85.3% of residents, though the number of people using another language at home rose by 4.3 percentage points since 2011. Those who speak little or no English make up 0.9% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas but well below the New South Wales average.
0.9% ▲ —
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Mooney Mooney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122090/mooney-mooney/topic/language