1.6% ▼ -23.4%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Meringandan West · Urban Centre
Language in Meringandan West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language spoken in Meringandan West, where 96.3% of people use it exclusively at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, a trend that has remained steady over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Similarly, the 0.1% who speak little or no English is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.1% ▼ -79.2%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.1%
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 Meringandan West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315060/meringandan-west/topic/language