29.2% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burswood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Burswood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of people in Burswood speak a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This diversity is well above the national figure and the Western Australian average. While English remains the main language, the community is notably multicultural.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 6.2%, followed by Cantonese at 2.2%. This high linguistic variety is reflected in the 2.7% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most areas.
2.7% ▼ -26.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Burswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50226/burswood/topic/language