28.0% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 72% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Swan · Federal Electorate
Language in Swan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly three in ten people in Swan speak a language other than English at home, making it a linguistically diverse area. This is well above the national figure, reflecting a community where many residents use a variety of different languages in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.8% speak only English, 28.0% use another language, which is well above the Western Australian average. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 4.0%, though the proportion of people speaking little or no English has fallen to 3.3% since 2016.
3.3% ▼ -38.3%
Higher than 68% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Swan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED514/swan/topic/language