35.7% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Morley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Morley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Morely has seen a significant increase in linguistic diversity since 2011, becoming a place where over a third of the population speaks a language other than English at home. This trend has made it far more multicultural than the typical Western Australian suburb.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 35.7% of people here use a language other than English at home, which is far above the state figure of 18.4%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Vietnamese, Mandarin, Italian and Cantonese, while 6.5% of residents speak little or no English.
6.5% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Morley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50998/morley/topic/language