23.6% ▲ +144.3%
Higher than 82% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Armadale · Council (LGA)
Language in Armadale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Armadale speak a language other than English at home, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most. This shift is dramatic, with the share of people using another language at home leaping 14 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 71.1% of people speak only English, 23.6% use another language at home—a figure well above the Western Australian average of 18.4%. Punjabi, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Hindi are common, and a small number of residents (2.4%) speak little or no English.
2.4% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Armadale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA50210/armadale/topic/language