21.4% ▲ +120.9%
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kwinana · Council (LGA)
Language in Kwinana
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A wide variety of languages are spoken in Kwinana, where 21.4% of people use a language other than English at home. This reflects a significant shift in the area's makeup, as the number of people speaking other languages has risen by 12 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 70.8% of residents, others like Tagalog, Punjabi, and Mandarin are common. This is much higher than most areas and well above the Western Australian figure, though only 2% of people speak little or no English.
2.0% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Kwinana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA54830/kwinana/topic/language