50.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Orange Springs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Orange Springs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Half of the people in Orange Springs speak a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This makes the community far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Western Australia and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 50% of residents use another language at home, with Mandarin being the most common non-English tongue at 13.3%. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 16.7% of people speak little or no English, a figure far above the national average of 3.4%.
16.7% —
Higher than 99% 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.
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 Orange Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51186/orange-springs/topic/language