15.5% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woollahra · Council (LGA)
Language in Woollahra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 79.5% of people in Woollahra speak only English at home, making it an area where English is much more dominant than across the rest of the country. While the number of people using other languages has risen slightly over the last decade, the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the state average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 15.5% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but still well below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 1.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.2% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Woollahra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA18500/woollahra/topic/language