5.4% ▲ +2.7%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Northam · Council (LGA)
Language in Northam
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Northam, with the proportion of people using another tongue at home barely changing since 2011. Only 5.4% of residents speak a language other than English, a figure far below both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 82.2% of the community, while those who speak little or no English make up just 0.6%. This is a little below the national figure, and the small number of other languages spoken include Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Mandarin.
0.6% ▲ +15.5%
Higher than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA56730/northam/topic/language