18.5% ▲ +29.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ascot · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ascot
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher language diversity than most similar areas is a key feature of Ascot, where 18.5% of people speak a language other than English at home. While this rate is about the same as the Western Australian figure, it remains well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 70.1% of residents, followed by Mandarin at 3.6% and Vietnamese at 1.5%. About 1.9% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.9% ▲ +12.1%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Ascot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50031/ascot/topic/language