37.7% ▲ +78.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kenwick · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kenwick
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of people in Kenwick now speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, making the area one of the most linguistically diverse places of its size in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 37.7% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.7% who speak little or no English, a rate well above the national figure of 3.4%.
7.7% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 7.7%
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 Kenwick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50754/kenwick/topic/language