27.1% —
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Perth (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Language in Perth (North Metropolitan)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of the population in Perth (North Metropolitan) speaks a language other than English at home. This figure rose by 16 percentage points since 2016, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.3% of people speak only English, 27.1% use another language at home, which is well above the national figure. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Mandarin, Italian, Cantonese, and Vietnamese, while the proportion of people who speak little or no English has risen to 3.3%.
3.3% ▲ +327.9%
Higher than 69% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Perth (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54304/perth/topic/language