24.4% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Victoria Park · Council (LGA)
Language in Victoria Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A slight drop in the use of foreign languages has occurred in Victoria Park since 2011, though the area remains diverse. About 24.4% of people here speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 3.4%, followed by Italian at 1.4%. While 24.4% of residents use another language at home, those who speak little or no English make up 2.5% of the population, a figure that fell from 3.8% in 2016.
2.5% ▼ -33.0%
Higher than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Victoria Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58510/victoria-park/topic/language