1.7% ▼ -78.9%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Murphys Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Murphys Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 1.7% of people in Murphys Creek speak a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure and shows a sharp drop from previous years. The area is almost entirely English-speaking.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 92.7% of the population, with the proportion of people using other languages falling 6.4 percentage points since 2011. This matches the fact that no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
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 Murphys Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322090/murphys-creek/topic/language