22.6% ▲ +29.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Applecross · Suburb / Locality
Language in Applecross
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 73.8% of people in Applecross. While most residents speak English, the area is more linguistically diverse than many other similar places, with over 22% of people using a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.6% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 4.8%, though only 2.0% of people speak little or no English.
2.0% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Applecross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50022/applecross/topic/language