21.9% ▲ +790.8%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Harvey · Urban Centre
Language in Harvey
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 72.1% of people in Harvey, though the area has become much more multilingual. A striking 21.9% of residents now use another language at home, a figure that has risen by 19 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%, with Italian, Tagalog and Mandarin being the most common non-English tongues. Despite this diversity, the 2.9% who speak little or no English is about the same as the national figure.
2.9% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.9%
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 Harvey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515015/harvey/topic/language