4.6% ▼ -77.0%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kambalda West · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue spoken in Kambalda West, where only 4.6% of people use another language at home. This reflects a community that is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Western Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
While more people use a second language here than in most similar areas, the figure has fallen 16 percentage points since 2011. Very few residents struggle with English, with only 0.2% speaking little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
4.6% ▼ -77.0%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▼ -53.8%
Higher than 50% 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 Kambalda West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515018/kambalda-west/topic/language