10.2% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Island · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in West Island, where 70.7% of residents speak only this language. While the area is sparsely populated, it has a higher proportion of people speaking other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.2% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 22.3%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 2.7% speaking little or no English.
2.7% ▼ -74.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 West Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL90005/west-island/topic/language