4.7% ▲ +40.7%
Lower than 82% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wheat Belt - South · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Wheat Belt - South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small increase in diversity has been seen in Wheat Belt - South, where the share of people using a language other than English at home rose to 4.7% since 2011. Despite this rise, the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 84.8% of the population. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the national average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.4% ▲ +44.5%
Lower than 87% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Wheat Belt - South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50903/wheat-belt-south/topic/language