13.1% ▲ +62.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Little River · Suburb / Locality
Language in Little River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 13% of people in Little River speak another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this is well below the national figure of 22.3%, it represents a significant portion of the local population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.6% of residents, but Arabic is the most common second language at 5.2%. Only 1.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the state and national averages.
1.4% ▲ +54.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Little River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21520/little-river/topic/language