1.1% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Swan Reach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Swan Reach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 1.1% of people in Swan Reach use a language other than English at home, making it much less linguistically diverse than most similar areas. The vast majority of the community speaks only English, while the use of other languages remains very low.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 75.3% of residents, with Punjabi being the most common other language at 1.1%. While the share of people using another language is far below the national figure of 22.3%, the 1.1% who speak little or no English is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
1.1% ▼ -60.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Swan Reach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41413/swan-reach/topic/language