4.4% ▲ +151.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cervantes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cervantes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as similar areas, Cervantes is a place where very few people use a language other than English at home. Only 4.4% of residents speak another language, which is far below the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 87.9% of the population, and while a small number of people speak Mandarin or Arabic, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Cervantes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50279/cervantes/topic/language