7.7% ▲ +451.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Walkaway · Suburb / Locality
Language in Walkaway
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 7.7% of people in Walkaway use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. While this is higher than in most similar areas, English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.5% of the population, with Vietnamese (3.6%) and Mandarin (1.8%) being the most common other languages. Around 1.8% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the Western Australian average.
1.8% ▲ —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Walkaway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51505/walkaway/topic/language