4.7% ▲ +40.8%
Lower than 53% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
6211, WA · Postcode
Language in 6211, WA
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in postcode 6211, where 90.6% of residents speak only this language at home. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than the state or national averages, though the use of other languages has risen slightly in recent years.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 4.7% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the 22.3% national average. This is reflected in the very small number of people who speak little or no English, which at 0.2% is well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
0.2% ▼ -31.8%
Lower than 65% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 6211, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6211/6211-wa/topic/language