13.5% ▲ +67.4%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wagga Wagga · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wagga Wagga
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Wagga Wagga now speak a language other than English at home compared to previous years. While English remains the main language for 80.5% of residents, the area has a higher proportion of multi-lingual speakers than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 13.5% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though still well below the national figure of 22.3%. This includes 2.7% who speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the Australian average.
2.7% ▲ +49.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Wagga Wagga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14101/wagga-wagga/topic/language