11.1% ▲ +82.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Nowergup · Suburb / Locality
Language in Nowergup
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Nowergup speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 11.1% of residents use another language, this is still well below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 81.5% of the area, with Vietnamese being the next most common at 1.6%. About 1.6% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the state figure.
1.6% ▲ —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Nowergup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51162/nowergup/topic/language