22.5% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bedford · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bedford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five residents in Bedford now use a language other than English at home. This represents a significant increase in linguistic diversity since 2011, making the area much more multicultural than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 22.5% of people use a language other than English, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. While English is used by 74.1% of the population, other common languages include Italian (2.8%), Vietnamese (2.6%), and Cantonese (2.2%). This diversity is reflected in the 3.6% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
3.6% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Bedford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50091/bedford/topic/language