4.6% ▲ +117.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wellington · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wellington
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.6% of people in Wellington use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average. This makes the town much less linguistically diverse than most of New South Wales and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 81.3% of residents. While 0.4% of people speak little or no English—which is higher than in most similar areas—this remains well below the state figure of 4.5%.
0.4% ▲ +37.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Wellington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14238/wellington/topic/language