7.2% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Metricup · Suburb / Locality
Language in Metricup
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 82.9% of people in Metricup. While this is much higher than the national figure, a small number of residents still use other languages at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas but far below the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Very few people speak little or no English (1.1%), though this is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.1% ▼ -71.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Metricup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50941/metricup/topic/language