26.7% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lexia · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lexia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of people in Lexia use a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at this level, even though the vast majority of residents still speak English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.7% of people use another language at home, which is well above the 18.4% seen across Western Australia. Despite this diversity, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English, a figure well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Lexia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50850/lexia/topic/language