12.5% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Iluka · Suburb / Locality
Language in Iluka
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Iluka now speak a language other than English at home compared to previous years. While 12.5% of residents use another language, this figure remains well below the national average of 22.3%. English is the dominant tongue, spoken exclusively by 85% of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.5% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though well below the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. This is reflected in the fact that very few residents, just 0.9%, speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Iluka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50664/iluka/topic/language