30.0% ▲ +26.9%
Higher than 74% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tangney · Federal Electorate
Language in Tangney
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Tangney than in most similar areas. About 30% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has risen steadily over the last decade to make the area much more linguistically diverse than the rest of the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Three in ten residents speak a language other than English, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. While Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 7.8%, only 3.7% of people speak little or no English.
3.7% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Tangney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED515/tangney/topic/language