22.4% ▲ +25.4%
Higher than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Booragoon · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Booragoon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 22% of Booragoon residents now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than most other similar places. While English remains the main language, a growing number of households use languages such as Mandarin and Cantonese.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.4% of people use another language at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 5.4%, while 2.3% of residents speak little or no English, a rate that has barely changed since 2016.
2.3% ▼ -15.3%
Higher than 63% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Booragoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/507041178/booragoon/topic/language