18.1% ▲ +651.0%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 87.0%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rottnest Island · Urban Centre
Language in Rottnest Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A higher share of people use a language other than English at home in Rottnest Island than in most similar areas. While 67.5% of residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has jumped to 18.1% over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly one in five residents now uses a language other than English at home, with Mandarin (4.8%) and Hindi (1.8%) being the most common. This is a big increase from 2011, though the share of people who speak little or no English has fallen sharply to 1.8% since 2016.
1.8% ▼ -88.9%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522057/rottnest-island/topic/language