12.8% ▲ +214.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Brown Range · Suburb / Locality
Language in Brown Range
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 13% of people in Brown Range use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. While this is well below the national figure, the community has a notable Vietnamese-speaking population. This mix makes the area more linguistically diverse than many of its neighbours.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80% of residents, while 11.2% speak Vietnamese. Around 4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Western Australian average and among the highest for areas of this size.
4.0% ▲ —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
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 Brown Range [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50195/brown-range/topic/language