19.5% —
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kwinana (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Kwinana (South Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in five people in Kwinana speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area more linguistically diverse than most similar places, although it remains slightly less diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 19.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the Western Australia figure. While Tagalog, Mandarin, Punjabi, and Hindi are the most common non-English languages, only 1.9% of people speak little or no English.
1.9% —
Higher than 55% 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 Kwinana (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED53105/kwinana/topic/language