9.5% ▲ +26.5%
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bunbury (South West) · State Electorate
Language in Bunbury (South West)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 9.5% of people in Bunbury (South West) use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average. Most residents speak only English, though the variety of languages spoken in the area has grown slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 83.7% of the population, while Italian, Tagalog and Mandarin are the next most common languages. Very few people speak little or no English here, at just 0.9%, which is a little below the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
0.9% —
Lower than 68% 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 Bunbury (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50906/bunbury/topic/language