4.8% ▲ +58.5%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Williamstown · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by almost everyone in Williamstown, with a very small 4.8% of residents using another language at home. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
While 4.8% of people use a language other than English at home—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the Western Australian average of 18.4%. There are no residents who speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
4.8% ▲ +58.5%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Williamstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51615/williamstown/topic/language