24.8% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Perth · Federal Electorate
Language in Perth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 70% of people in Perth speak only English at home. While English is the main language, about a quarter of the population uses another language, making it more linguistically diverse than most other areas in the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.8% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Mandarin, Italian, and Vietnamese are the most common non-English languages, although the share of people using another language fell slightly since 2011. Meanwhile, 3.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the national average.
3.2% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED513/perth/topic/language