21.5% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Karalundi · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Karalundi speak another language at home, a figure that has risen since 2011. This makes the area's linguistic diversity much higher than most similar places, though it remains about the same as the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
While 21.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Despite this diversity, no one in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the 3.4% national figure.
21.5% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Karalundi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50723/karalundi/topic/language