20.9% ▲ +47.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Pearsall · Suburb / Locality
Language in Pearsall
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Pearsall speak a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. This linguistic variety is a key feature of the suburb, where 20.9% of residents use a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 76% of people, others include Vietnamese, Tagalog, Mandarin and Italian. Despite the high use of other languages, only 2% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
2.0% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.0%
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 Pearsall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51219/pearsall/topic/language