9.5% ▲ +63.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wodonga · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wodonga
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for most people in Wodonga, where 85% of residents speak only English at home. While a small number of other languages are spoken, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though still far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This includes 1.8% who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average of 3.4%.
1.8% ▲ +58.3%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Wodonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22819/wodonga/topic/language