33.2% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Winthrop · Suburb / Locality
Language in Winthrop
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 64.3% of Winthrop residents, but the area is notably multilingual. More than a third of people here speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 33.2% of people use another language at home, a figure far above the Western Australian average. This high level of diversity is reflected in the 9.2% who speak Mandarin and 4.5% who speak Cantonese, while a little more than 4% of residents speak little or no English.
4.2% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.2%
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 Winthrop [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51623/winthrop/topic/language