18.4% ▲ +26.6%
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Western Australia · State / Territory
Language in Western Australia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Roughly middle-of-the-pack compared to other states, Western Australia has 18.4% of its people speaking a language other than English at home. While this is well below the national figure, the proportion of people using different languages has grown by 3.9 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 75.3% of residents, though Mandarin is the most common other language at 1.9%. Only 2.3% of people speak little or no English, which is lower than most other states and barely changed since 2016.
2.3% ▼ -8.8%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Western Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/5/western-australia/topic/language