20.7% ▲ +27.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Leeming · Suburb / Locality
Language in Leeming
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Leeming, where 77.4% of people use it as their only tongue at home. The area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with over one-fifth of residents speaking a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.7% of people use another language at home, which is a little above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. While Mandarin is the most common second language at 6.3%, only 2.4% of residents speak little or no English.
2.4% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Leeming [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50842/leeming/topic/language