20.0% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
South Perth · Suburb / Locality
Language in South Perth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 20% of people in South Perth use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the Western Australian figure. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places. While many residents speak other languages, the vast majority are comfortable with English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 74.6% of residents, though Mandarin is the most common second language at 2.9%. Only 2.0% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
2.0% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 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 South Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51381/south-perth/topic/language