34.9% ▲ +18.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Perth · Suburb / Locality
Language in Perth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of the people in Perth (WA) speak only English at home, but the area is far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the country. With 34.9% of residents using a language other than English, it has one of the highest proportions of multi-lingual households for its area type.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 7.7%, followed by Cantonese and Vietnamese. This diversity is reflected in the fact that 4.1% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the Western Australian figure.
4.1% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51230/perth/topic/language