Plumridge Lakes · Suburb / Locality

Language in Plumridge Lakes

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the main language in Plumridge Lakes, though more than one in five people use another language at home. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than the state average. Around 22.3% of residents speak a language other than English, which is about the same as the national figure.

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Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

While 46.2% of people speak only English, 22.3% use another language at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure. Tagalog is the most common non-English language at 2.6%, and a small number of people (1.1%) speak little or no English.

22.3% ▼ -74.2%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 86.8%
  • 2016: 52.2%
  • 2021: 22.3%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

1.1% ▼ -88.0%

Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.1%
  • 2021: 1.1%

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.

Language used at home

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In Plumridge Lakes, English only is the majority at 95%; Tagalog is next at 5%.

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 Plumridge Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51253/plumridge-lakes/topic/language