11.8% ▼ -15.3%
Higher than 50% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fremantle · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Fremantle
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Fremantle, where only 11.8% of residents speak another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average. Most people here communicate in English, and very few struggle with the language in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 82.4% of people at home, with Italian being the next most common language at 2.9%. This level of diversity is well below the Western Australian figure, and the proportion of people using another language has fallen 2.1 percentage points since 2011. Only 1.4% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
1.4% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 52% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Fremantle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50702/fremantle/topic/language