21.4% ▲ +120.9%
Higher than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kwinana · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Kwinana
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than twice as many people in Kwinana now speak another language at home compared to 2011, when the figure was just 9.7%. Today, 21.4% of the population uses a language other than English, which is well above the Western Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 70.8% of residents, Tagalog, Punjabi, Mandarin and Hindi are also spoken. Despite the rise in non-English languages, the 2.0% of people who speak little or no English is a little below the national figure.
2.0% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Kwinana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50703/kwinana/topic/language