10.3% ▲ +111.7%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tom Price · Urban Centre
Language in Tom Price
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Tom Price than in most similar areas. While 10.3% of residents use another language at home, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home rose to 10.3% since 2011. Despite this increase, only 0.5% of the population speak little or no English, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 2.3%.
0.5% ▲ +32.3%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Tom Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515033/tom-price/topic/language