31.5% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wattle Grove · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wattle Grove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over 31% of people in Wattle Grove speak a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This is well above both the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.9% of residents speak only English, 31.5% use another language at home, with Arabic being the most common at 6.7%. Interestingly, while language diversity is high, the 2.8% who speak little or no English is about the same as the national figure.
2.8% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Wattle Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14210/wattle-grove/topic/language