15.9% ▲ +31.1%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Curtin · Suburb / Locality
Language in Curtin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Fewer people have shifted to using languages other than English at home in Curtin since 2011. While 15.9% of residents now speak a language other than English, this is well below the national figure and the ACT average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 81.6% of residents, while Mandarin is the most common other tongue at 1.5%. Only 1.3% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for the ACT and Australia.
1.3% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Curtin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80043/curtin/topic/language