2.5% ▼ -46.9%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 48.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Morawa · Urban Centre
Language in Morawa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 2.5% of people in Morawa (L) speak a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure and shows a continuing decline in linguistic diversity for the area. Almost everyone here is comfortable using English in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 68.6% of households, and the proportion of people speaking another language has fallen to 2.5% since 2011. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English, which is well below the Australian average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 7.2%
- 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 Morawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522047/morawa/topic/language