10.2% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Island · Urban Centre
Language in West Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 70.7% of West Island (L) residents. While the area is sparsely populated, it shows a much higher rate of people using other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.2% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Meanwhile, the proportion of people who speak little or no English fell 8.0 points since 2016 to just 2.7%.
2.7% ▼ -74.6%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 West Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL922003/west-island/topic/language