7.0% ▼ -36.8%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Northam · Urban Centre
Language in Northam
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of people in Northam, where only 7.0% of residents use another language at home. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains far below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken exclusively by 82.3% of the population, with Tagalog the most common other language at 1.0%. The share of people using other languages at home fell 4.0 points since 2011, and only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +23.1%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL514004/northam/topic/language