7.5% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Glenfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Glenfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.5% of people in Glenfield. While more residents here use a non-English language at home than in most similar areas, this figure is still far below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas. Despite this, only 0.8% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the Western Australian average.
0.8% ▲ +24.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Glenfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50557/glenfield/topic/language