30.1% ▲ +24.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bateman · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bateman
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much more diverse mix of languages is now spoken in Bateman than in previous years. About 30% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 30.1% of people here use another language at home, a figure well above the national average. While English is the most common language at 66.9%, Mandarin (8.1%) and Cantonese (5.0%) are also widely spoken; meanwhile, 3.2% of people speak little or no English.
3.2% ▲ +12.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Bateman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50079/bateman/topic/language