19.9% ▲ +62.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kalgoorlie · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kalgoorlie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have shifted to using a language other than English at home in Kalgoorlie since 2011. About one in five residents now speaks a different language, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 19.9% of residents use another language at home, very few struggle with English, with only 1.9% speaking little or no English. Beyond the 70.2% who speak only English, the most common languages include Tagalog, Mandarin and Punjabi.
1.9% ▲ +20.6%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Kalgoorlie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50712/kalgoorlie/topic/language