14.5% ▼ -17.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Hawthorn · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Hawthorn
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Daily life in Mount Hawthorn is predominantly English-speaking, though a small number of residents bring diverse global languages into the neighbourhood. While 14.5% of people use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 82.6% of residents, with Italian being the most common second language at 2.9%. Very few people speak little or no English at 1.4%, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
1.4% ▼ -33.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Mount Hawthorn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51015/mount-hawthorn/topic/language