Boyanup · Urban Centre

Language in Boyanup

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

A huge 33 percentage point drop in non-English speakers since 2011 has made Boyanup (L) very linguistically uniform. Only 3.5% of people now use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure.

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📍 Boyanup, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is spoken by 90.8% of the population, and not a single person here reports speaking little or no English. This lack of language barriers is well below the 3.4% national average.

3.5% ▼ -90.3%

Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 36.5%
  • 2016: 2.0%
  • 2021: 3.5%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Boyanup, English only is the majority at 98%; Vietnamese is next at 1%.

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 Boyanup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521006/boyanup/topic/language