5.1% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Wodonga · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Wodonga
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 89.6% of people in West Wodonga, making it much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country. While a small number of residents speak other languages, the area remains overwhelmingly English-speaking.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 5.1% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Only 0.8% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but still well below the state average.
0.8% ▲ +33.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 West Wodonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22758/west-wodonga/topic/language