86.5% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Irrunytju · Suburb / Locality
Language in Irrunytju
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A vast majority of residents in Irrunytju speak a language other than English at home, placing it among the highest areas for linguistic diversity at this level. About 86.5% of people use another language, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak only English, with just 6.8% doing so. While 5.3% of residents speak little or no English, this is well above the Western Australian figure of 2.3%.
5.3% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Irrunytju [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50673/irrunytju/topic/language