22.2% ▲ +60.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Middle Swan · Suburb / Locality
Language in Middle Swan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Middle Swan use a language other than English at home. This is much higher than most similar areas, with 22.2% of residents speaking another language, which is well above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 71.5% of residents speak only English, those who speak another language include Italian, Tagalog, Punjabi and Mandarin. About 2.7% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
2.7% ▼ -8.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Middle Swan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50944/middle-swan/topic/language