1.1% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dowerin · Urban Centre
Language in Dowerin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Dowerin speaks English as their only language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state, with 93.3% of people using only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.1% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. This lack of diversity is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks 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 Dowerin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522021/dowerin/topic/language