29.6% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Embleton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Embleton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of people in Embleton use a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This makes the suburb far more linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 29.6% of residents speak another language at home, with Mandarin and Vietnamese being the most common after English. Consistent with this diversity, 5.6% of people speak little or no English, a figure well above the Western Australian average of 2.3%.
5.6% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Embleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50484/embleton/topic/language