45.6% ▲ +72.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 45.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beckenham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Beckenham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Beckenham speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most other parts of Western Australia, where many people navigate daily life in multiple languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 45.6% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. English is spoken by 47.9% of the population, while other common languages include Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog and Hindi. This diversity is reflected in the 6.7% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Western Australian average.
6.7% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Beckenham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50090/beckenham/topic/language