1.2% ▲ —
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maaroom · Urban Centre
Language in Maaroom
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way of communicating in Maaroom (L), where almost everyone speaks the language at home. Only 1.2% of people use another language, making it one of the areas with the lowest linguistic diversity in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 90.4% of residents. The share of people using another language at home rose slightly since 2011 to 1.2%, which is still far below the national figure of 22.3%. Meanwhile, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is 0.0%, well below the 3.4% seen across Australia.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Maaroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322074/maaroom/topic/language