Greenough · Suburb / Locality

Language in Greenough

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

A tiny 1.5% of people in Greenough speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia. Almost everyone here uses English as their primary language.

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📍 Greenough, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is spoken by 85.2% of the population. Only 1.5% use another language at home, which is far below the Western Australian rate of 18.4%, and there are no residents who speak little or no English.

1.5% ▼ -61.6%

Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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 Greenough, English only is the majority at 100%.

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 Greenough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50586/greenough/topic/language