45.7% ▲ +95.9%
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 44.5%
- 2021: 45.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Holsworthy · State Electorate
Language in Holsworthy
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Holsworthy now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has jumped 22 percentage points since 2011. This shift makes the area far more linguistically diverse than both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 45.7% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While English is the most common language at 48.4%, Arabic is widely spoken by 13.1% of residents, and 7.2% of people speak little or no English.
7.2% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Holsworthy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10036/holsworthy/topic/language