9.9% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Melville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Melville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Melville, where 85.8% of residents speak only this language at home. While it has a higher proportion of people using other languages than most similar areas, it stays far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.9% of people use another language at home, though this is well below the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Italian is the most common non-English language at 1.3%, while only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English.
0.6% ▼ -27.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50932/melville/topic/language