12.6% ▲ +59.4%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kalamunda · Council (LGA)
Language in Kalamunda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 83.2% of people in Kalamunda. While more residents now speak a language other than English at home than in the past, the area remains much less linguistically diverse than the state or national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.6% of people use another language at home, a figure that rose 4.7 percentage points since 2011. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 1.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the state average.
1.3% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Kalamunda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA54200/kalamunda/topic/language