86.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wanarn · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wanarn
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 86.3% of people in Wanarn use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and among the highest rates for similar areas. It marks the community as a place where non-English languages are the primary way of communicating.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.1% of residents speak only English, while 11.1% speak little or no English, which is well above the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
11.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Wanarn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51516/wanarn/topic/language