2.1% ▲ +145.9%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Perry · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people in Mount Perry use a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the country. Only 2.1% of residents speak a different language, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than most other parts of Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 86.2% of the population. This helps explain why 0% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the national average of 3.4%.
2.1% ▲ +145.9%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Mount Perry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32012/mount-perry/topic/language