21.1% ▲ +53.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ferndale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ferndale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Ferndale speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with 21.1% of residents using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 73.7% of people, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 4.4%. Around 3.3% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Western Australian average.
3.3% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Ferndale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50502/ferndale/topic/language