40.3% ▲ +79.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maddington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Maddington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than four in ten people in Maddington now speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in its class, with a notable number of residents who speak little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 40.3% of people use another language at home, which is far above the 18.4% seen across Western Australia. This diversity is reflected in the 6.7% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average of 3.4%. While 52.3% speak only English, the most common other languages are Tagalog (3.9%) and Punjabi (2.9%).
6.7% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Maddington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50873/maddington/topic/language