28.6% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wareemba · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wareemba
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher proportion of people speak a language other than English in Wareemba compared to the national average. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, the figure here is well above that at 28.6%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar locations.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Italian is the most common non-English language spoken at home at 16.4%, followed by Greek at 2.4%. About 4.3% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the New South Wales average.
4.3% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Wareemba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14166/wareemba/topic/language