8.7% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bicton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Bicton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Bicton, where 87.1% of residents speak only this language at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it means the suburb is far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but well below the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Only 0.8% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that sits slightly below the national average.
0.8% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Bicton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50119/bicton/topic/language