4.3% ▲ +102.3%
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wyalkatchem · Council (LGA)
Language in Wyalkatchem
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Wyalkatchem compared to the rest of the state. Only 4.3% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home for 86.4% of people, and there are no residents who speak little or no English. While the share of people using another language at home rose by 2.2 percentage points since 2011, the figure remains far below the Western Australian average.
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 Wyalkatchem [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59330/wyalkatchem/topic/language