15.0% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Beach · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in West Beach compared to the national average. While 15% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the 22.3% figure for Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Greek is the most common non-English language at 3.3%, followed by Italian at 1.5%. Despite being much higher than most areas, only 1.2% of people here speak little or no English, which is a little below the state figure.
1.2% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 West Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41564/west-beach/topic/language