5.1% ▲ +32.9%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wamberal · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wamberal
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 91.5% of Wamberal residents, making it a very linguistically uniform area. While a small number of people speak other languages at home, the variety is much lower than across the state or nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This is consistent with the fact that just 0.3% of residents speak little or no English.
0.3% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Wamberal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14140/wamberal/topic/language