55.5% ▲ +46.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 49.1%
- 2021: 55.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Cannington · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Cannington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of all residents in East Cannington now speak a language other than English at home. This shift reflects a growing cultural mix, with the area becoming far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Western Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 55.5% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. Punjabi is the most common non-English language at 8.5%, and 8% of residents speak little or no English.
8.0% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 8.0%
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 East Cannington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50453/east-cannington/topic/language