3.8% ▲ +46.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Helena · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Mount Helena, where only 3.8% of people speak another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Most residents use only English in their daily lives.
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.3% of residents speak only English, and the number of people using other languages is far below the Western Australian average of 18.4%. While 0.2% of people speak little or no English, this is actually higher than in most similar areas.
3.8% ▲ +46.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▼ -37.0%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Mount Helena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51016/mount-helena/topic/language