14.5% ▲ +86.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forrestfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forrestfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 80.3% of people in Forrestfield. While this is the dominant language, the area has a much higher proportion of people speaking other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.5% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country. This includes small groups speaking Tagalog, Hindi and Mandarin, and 1.7% of people speak little or no English.
1.7% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Forrestfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50518/forrestfield/topic/language