35.8% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Morley (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Morley (East Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Morley than across the rest of Western Australia. Over a third of the population uses another language at home, a figure that has risen since 2011 to reach 35.8%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 59.4% of residents speak only English, the area has a diverse mix of languages including Vietnamese (4.7%), Italian (3.7%), Mandarin (3.1%) and Cantonese (2.1%). This diversity is reflected in the 5.8% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the state figure of 2.3%.
5.8% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
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 Morley (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED53802/morley/topic/language