28.8% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
St James · Suburb / Locality
Language in St James
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 29% of people in St James speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the Western Australian average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse places of its kind in the state. Most residents use English, but a variety of other languages are common in the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.6% of residents speak only English, 28.8% use another language at home, which is well above the national figure. This diversity is reflected in the use of Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese and Italian, and 3.4% of people speak little or no English.
3.4% ▼ -25.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
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 St James [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51402/st-james/topic/language