46.0% ▲ +15.6%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.8%
- 2016: 43.4%
- 2021: 46.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wheelers Hill · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wheelers Hill
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost half of all residents in Wheelers Hill speak a language other than English at home, placing it among the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This high level of variety is seen in the 46.0% of people who use another language, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 15.4%, followed by Cantonese, Greek, and Italian. About 7.4% of people speak little or no English, which is well above the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
7.4% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Wheelers Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22766/wheelers-hill/topic/language