4.3% ▲ +157.4%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Middlemount · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language used in daily life for Middlemount, where only 4.3% of people speak another tongue at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, marking the area as much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 62.5% of residents, use of other languages rose 2.6 points since 2011. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the 3.4% national average.
4.3% ▲ +157.4%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▲ —
Higher than 60% of urban centre 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 Middlemount [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315061/middlemount/topic/language