21.5% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Victoria Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Victoria Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in East Victoria Park now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has grown over the last decade. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 21.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure. While English is the main language for 71.7% of people, Mandarin is the most common second language at 2.6%.
2.2% ▼ -22.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Victoria Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50468/east-victoria-park/topic/language