2.5% ▲ +4.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wangaratta South · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wangaratta South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 94.4% of people in Wangaratta South. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state, with only 2.5% of residents using a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 2.5% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, 1.5% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
1.5% ▲ —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Wangaratta South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22681/wangaratta-south/topic/language