21.4% ▲ +23.9%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Perth · Urban Centre
Language in Perth
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have shifted to using a language other than English at home in Perth (WA), with this figure rising 4.1 percentage points since 2011. Now, 21.4% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 73.6% of people, Mandarin is the most common other language at 2.4%. Around 2.7% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
2.7% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL501001/perth/topic/language