30.0% ▼ -3.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Victoria Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Victoria Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people are speaking a language other than English in Victoria Park than in most similar areas. Around 30% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area significantly more linguistically diverse than the rest of Western Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 64% of the community, followed by Mandarin at 3.5% and Hindi at 1.9%. While 30% of people use a language other than English at home, a small minority of 2.9% speak little or no English.
2.9% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Victoria Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51490/victoria-park/topic/language