10.8% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Heathridge · Suburb / Locality
Language in Heathridge
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small but steady increase in linguistic variety has seen more people speaking non-English languages in Heathridge since 2011. While 84.7% of residents speak only English, the number of households using another language is now much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.8% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This includes small groups speaking Mandarin, Italian, Arabic and Cantonese, though only 1.2% of residents speak little or no English.
1.2% ▼ -29.1%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Heathridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50622/heathridge/topic/language