30.4% ▲ +23.1%
Higher than 76% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballajura · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Ballajura
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people speak a language other than English at home in Ballajura than in the rest of Western Australia. About 30.4% of residents use a different language, a figure that has risen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.1% of people speak only English, Vietnamese is the most common other language at 6.8%, followed by Arabic at 2.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.4% of residents who speak little or no English, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 2.3%.
6.4% ▲ +6.0%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Ballajura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/504031056/ballajura/topic/language