4.5% ▲ —
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Swanport · Suburb / Locality
Language in Swanport
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.5% of people in Swanport use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 91.7% of residents, 2.5% speak Vietnamese. About 2.5% of the population speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.5% ▼ -43.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Swanport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41414/swanport/topic/language