30.5% ▲ +22.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ballajura · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ballajura
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than three in ten residents in Ballajura speak a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This creates a community where multiple languages are heard daily, with 30.5% of people using a non-English tongue.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 65% of the community, while Vietnamese is the next most common at 6.8%. Because of this high diversity, 6.4% of people speak little or no English, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 2.3%.
6.4% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Ballajura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50061/ballajura/topic/language