27.2% ▲ +48.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hammond Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Hammond Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Multilingualism is a common part of daily life in Hammond Park, where over a quarter of residents speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the typical Western Australian suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 27.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is spoken by 69% of residents, other common languages include Mandarin, Tagalog, Hindi and Cantonese. This diversity is reflected in the 2.4% of people who speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most other areas.
2.4% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Hammond Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50610/hammond-park/topic/language