5.8% ▲ +21.4%
Lower than 72% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wodonga - Alpine · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Wodonga - Alpine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people are using languages other than English in Wodonga - Alpine, with the share rising 1.0 percentage points since 2011. While this shift is happening, only 5.8% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. It is an area where English remains the dominant tongue.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.2% of the population, and only 0.9% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the state average. Aside from English, small numbers of residents speak Italian, Punjabi, Vietnamese, or Mandarin.
0.9% ▲ +32.6%
Lower than 61% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Wodonga - Alpine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20403/wodonga-alpine/topic/language