30.6% ▲ +364.7%
Higher than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burt · Federal Electorate
Language in Burt
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people use a language other than English at home in Burt compared to most similar areas. This shift is dramatic, with the share of people speaking other languages rising by 24 percentage points since 2011 to reach 30.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 30.6% of people use another language at home, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. While English is used by 63.7%, other common languages include Mandarin, Punjabi, and Tagalog; meanwhile, the 4.2% who speak little or no English is slightly above the state average.
4.2% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Burt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED502/burt/topic/language