12.4% ▲ +61.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wadalba · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wadalba
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Wadalba, where 83.6% of people speak only English at home. While more people here use a language other than English compared to most similar areas, this figure remains well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.4% of residents use another language at home, which is much higher than in similar areas but far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Very few people struggle with the language, with only 1.2% speaking little or no English.
1.2% ▲ +2.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Wadalba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14098/wadalba/topic/language