18.9% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Armadale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Armadale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Armadale, where 77% of people only speak this language at home. While more people use other languages here than in most similar areas, the figure is still well below the national and state averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Mandarin, Greek and Cantonese being the most common. Only 1.8% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Victorian and Australian figures.
1.8% ▼ -24.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Armadale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20066/armadale/topic/language