3.3% ▲ +660.1%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Williams · Council (LGA)
Language in Williams
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Williams compared to the rest of the country. Only 3.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it one of the most linguistically uniform areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 85.5% of people speak only English, the number using another language at home rose 2.9 percentage points since 2011. Despite this small increase, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Williams [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59170/williams/topic/language