20.3% —
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Churchlands (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 76.6% of people in Churchlands, though the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places. About one in five residents speaks a language other than English at home, a figure that sits slightly above the state average.
English and the largest community languages.
While 20.3% of people use another language at home, very few struggle with English; only 1.7% speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%. The most common non-English languages spoken here are Mandarin, Italian, and Cantonese.
20.3% —
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.7% —
Higher than 50% 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Churchlands (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51504/churchlands/topic/language