20.3% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Melville · Council (LGA)
Language in Melville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English at home in Melville than in most similar areas. About 20.3% of the population uses another language, a figure that has risen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than the state average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 76.1% of residents speak only English, 20.3% use another language, with Mandarin (4.7%) and Cantonese (2.0%) being the most common. Despite this diversity, only 2.0% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
2.0% ▼ -7.8%
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 Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA55320/melville/topic/language