49.3% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.0%
- 2021: 49.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dayton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dayton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Dayton speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Western Australia, with 49.3% of people using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken by 46.7% of the community. Others include Punjabi at 10.1%, Tagalog at 6.2%, and Hindi at 3.2%. Consistent with this diversity, the 4.9% who speak little or no English is a little above the national figure.
4.9% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 Dayton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50397/dayton/topic/language