3.3% ▲ —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beacon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Beacon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Beacon, where only 3.3% of residents use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%. The area is very linguistically uniform, with almost everyone speaking English daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 87.8% of the population, which is far below the Western Australian rate of 18.4% for other languages. Notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a figure well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Beacon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50085/beacon/topic/language