4.3% ▼ -56.6%
Lower than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Esperance · Urban Area
Language in Esperance
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Esperance compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.3% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has fallen since 2011. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home by 85.3% of people. Very few residents speak little or no English at 0.4%, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▲ +17.2%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5005/esperance/topic/language