9.6% —
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bicton (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Bicton (South Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 9.6% of people in Bicton use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country. English is the primary language for the vast majority of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.3% of residents, while Italian is the most common other language at 1.7%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.8% speaking little or no English, which is a little below both the state and national figures.
0.8% —
Lower than 73% of state electorate 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.
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 Bicton (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50805/bicton/topic/language