13.0% ▲ +30.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gwelup · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gwelup
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Gwelup, where 83.8% of people speak only this language. While a small number of households use other languages, this is still much higher than in most similar areas. The overall linguistic profile is far more uniform than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 13% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Mandarin and Italian are the most common non-English languages, while only 1.3% of residents speak little or no English.
1.3% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Gwelup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50599/gwelup/topic/language