22.2% ▲ +55.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Webberton · Suburb / Locality
Language in Webberton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 22.2% of people in Webberton use a language other than English at home, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas. This makes the community more linguistically diverse than the Western Australian average, though it sits about the same as the national level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.6% of residents, but Mandarin is spoken by 2.5%. Around 3.8% of people speak little or no English, which is among the highest levels for this type of area.
3.8% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Webberton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51552/webberton/topic/language