25.0% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Spearwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Spearwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A quarter of people in Spearwood speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the state average. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places. While English is still the most common language, there is a strong presence of other global tongues.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure well above the Western Australian average of 18.4%. This diversity is reflected in the use of Italian, Tagalog, Mandarin and Vietnamese, and it means 4% of people speak little or no English, which is among the highest rates for this level.
4.0% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
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 Spearwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51396/spearwood/topic/language