83.1% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 85.2%
- 2016: 81.2%
- 2021: 83.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St George Ranges · Suburb / Locality
Language in St George Ranges
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Among the highest in the region for linguistic diversity, St George Ranges has a vast majority of residents who speak a language other than English. Around 83.1% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 13% of people speak English only at home. This high rate of other language use is consistent with the 8.6% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Western Australian average of 2.3%.
8.6% ▲ +23.3%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
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 St George Ranges [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51401/st-george-ranges/topic/language