6.0% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Abba River · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Abba River, where 90.4% of residents speak only this language at home. This makes the area far more linguistically uniform than the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
While 6.0% of people use another language at home—a figure higher than in most similar areas—this is still far below the Western Australian rate of 18.4%. Reflecting this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
6.0% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
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 Abba River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50001/abba-river/topic/language