23.7% ▲ +126.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dampier Peninsula · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dampier Peninsula
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly a quarter of people in the Dampier Peninsula speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other similar places. While many residents use multiple languages, very few struggle to communicate in English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 23.7% of residents use another language at home, a figure that sits a little above the national average. Despite this diversity, only 0.7% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the state and national figures.
0.7% ▼ -69.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Dampier Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50380/dampier-peninsula/topic/language