56.4% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.2%
- 2016: 56.9%
- 2021: 56.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Queens Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Queens Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of all residents in Queens Park speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse places in the region, with a strong presence of non-English speaking households.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 56.4% of people use another language at home, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.4% who speak little or no English, while the most common non-English languages are Punjabi at 8.0% and Mandarin at 7.0%.
7.4% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Queens Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51271/queens-park/topic/language