41.9% ▲ +33.6%
Higher than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Canning · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Canning
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people speak a language other than English in Canning compared to the rest of the state. Nearly 42% of residents use another language at home, which is 24 percentage points above the Western Australian figure. This linguistic diversity has grown steadily over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 9.5%, followed by Cantonese at 3.2%. While 41.9% of people use another language at home, 5.5% speak little or no English, a figure well above the state average.
5.5% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 86% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 Canning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50603/canning/topic/language