17.7% ▼ -27.4%
Higher than 56% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pearce · Federal Electorate
Language in Pearce
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Pearce compared to the national average. While 17.7% of residents use another language at home, this figure is well below the Australian average of 22.3%. Most of the community speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 77.9% of residents, and the proportion of people using another language has fallen 6.7 percentage points since 2011. Only 1.9% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
1.9% ▲ +33.3%
Higher than 52% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Pearce [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED512/pearce/topic/language