6.9% ▲ +33.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Kennedy · Suburb / Locality
Language in Port Kennedy
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English in Port Kennedy compared to the rest of the country. While 6.9% of residents speak another language at home, this is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87.5% of residents, with Tagalog and Mandarin being the next most common. Although the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it is still a little below the Western Australian average at 0.7%.
0.7% ▲ +40.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Port Kennedy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51260/port-kennedy/topic/language