Greenbushes · Suburb / Locality

Language in Greenbushes

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language for daily life in Greenbushes, with 90.1% of residents using it exclusively at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.

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📍 Greenbushes, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 3.0% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for Western Australia and Australia. This is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English.

3.0% ▲ +13.3%

Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Greenbushes, English only is the majority at 99%; Italian is next at 1%.

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 Greenbushes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50582/greenbushes/topic/language