3.5% ▼ -14.4%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bridgetown · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Bridgetown than across the state or nation. Just 3.5% of residents use another language at home, making it much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.8% of the town. Only 0.3% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
3.5% ▼ -14.4%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.3% ▼ -44.9%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Bridgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515003/bridgetown/topic/language