24.1% ▲ +738.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Laverton · Urban Centre
Language in Laverton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 61.7% of people in Laverton (L). The area has seen a huge shift in its linguistic makeup, with the proportion of people using a language other than English at home climbing 21 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 24.1% of residents now use another language at home, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 18.4%. Despite this, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is only 0.7%, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.7% ▲ —
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Laverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522039/laverton/topic/language