35.5% ▲ +22.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Churchlands · Suburb / Locality
Language in Churchlands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Churchlands speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. Around 35.5% of residents use another language, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This creates a diverse linguistic landscape for the suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 12.6%, followed by Cantonese at 3.3%. While 35.5% of people use another language, only 3.8% speak little or no English, a figure slightly above the Western Australian average of 2.3%.
3.8% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Churchlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50293/churchlands/topic/language