20.5% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
South Perth · Council (LGA)
Language in South Perth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A little more than one in five people in South Perth use a language other than English at home. While this is slightly below the national figure, it is much higher than most similar areas. The linguistic mix has remained steady over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.5% of residents speak another language at home, with Mandarin (3.7%) and Cantonese (1.5%) being the most common after English. Only 2.0% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian average.
2.0% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 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 South Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57840/south-perth/topic/language