15.6% ▲ +59.9%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Midland (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Midland (East Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Midland are speaking languages other than English at home, with the figure rising by 5.8 percentage points since 2011. While 15.6% of residents now use another language, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 78.5% of people, while Tagalog and Italian are the next most common. Only 1.7% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
1.7% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Midland (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED53502/midland/topic/language