2.8% ▲ —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wards River · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Wards River, where only 2.8% of residents use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, marking it as a very linguistically uniform area.
English and the largest community languages.
Around the middle of similar areas, 2.8% of people here use a language other than English at home. While this is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is actually higher than most areas, though still well below the national 3.4%.
2.8% ▲ —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Wards River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14165/wards-river/topic/language