29.6% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beechboro · Suburb / Locality
Language in Beechboro
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of people in Beechboro use a language other than English at home, a rate among the highest for similar areas. This makes the suburb much more linguistically diverse than both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 29.6% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far above the state figure of 18.4%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.3% who speak little or no English, a proportion well above the Western Australian average. While most people speak only English (64.4%), others commonly use Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese or Arabic.
6.3% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 Beechboro [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50093/beechboro/topic/language