10.4% ▼ -36.0%
Lower than 62% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitlam · Federal Electorate
Language in Whitlam
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 10.4% of people in Whitlam use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country. The proportion of people speaking another language has also fallen by 5.8 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 84.9% of residents, and only 1.4% of people speak little or no English. This lack of English proficiency is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5% and has barely changed since 2016.
1.4% ▼ -12.8%
Lower than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Whitlam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED147/whitlam/topic/language