5.5% ▲ +57.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whiteheads Creek · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Whiteheads Creek, where only 5.5% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it an area where very few residents require translation or multilingual services for daily life.
English and the largest community languages.
While 86.5% speak only English, 1.4% of people speak little or no English. This proportion is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4% but is much higher than in most similar areas.
5.5% ▲ +57.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
1.4% ▲ —
Higher than 80% 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 Whiteheads Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22770/whiteheads-creek/topic/language