4.4% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whiporie · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people in Whiporie. Only 4.4% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area where almost everyone shares a common tongue.
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, with 57.9% of the population using it exclusively at home. While no one in the area speaks little or no English, this is well below the 3.4% national average.
4.4% —
Higher than 57% 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 Whiporie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14290/whiporie/topic/language