5.2% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wells Crossing · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Wells Crossing use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 5.2% of residents speak another language, this is still far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 83% of the area, though 2.4% speak Punjabi. Notably, no one in the community reported speaking little or no English.
5.2% ▼ -8.1%
Higher than 61% 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 Wells Crossing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14240/wells-crossing/topic/language