37.9% ▲ +28.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 37.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kewdale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kewdale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of people in Kewdale now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen since 2011. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Western Australia and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 37.9% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. While English is the main language for 56.5%, Mandarin, Arabic, Italian and Cantonese are also spoken; meanwhile, 5.2% of people speak little or no English.
5.2% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 5.2%
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 Kewdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50756/kewdale/topic/language