38.3% ▲ +38.8%
Higher than 87% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitehorse - East · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Whitehorse - East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people speak a language other than English in Whitehorse - East than in the rest of the country. Around 38.3% of residents use another language at home, which is 16 percentage points above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin and Cantonese are the most common non-English languages, with 13.3% and 5.6% of people speaking them. This linguistic diversity is reflected in the 6.8% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the national average.
6.8% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 89% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 Whitehorse - East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/21104/whitehorse-east/topic/language