24.2% ▲ +74.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wood Wood · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher than most similar areas, 24.2% of people in Wood Wood use a language other than English at home. This makes the community more linguistically diverse than many nearby places, though the total is still a little above the national figure.
English and the largest community languages.
While about one in four residents speaks another language, such as Italian at 6.6%, everyone in Wood Wood speaks English well. This is well below the state and national figures for people who speak little or no English.
24.2% ▲ +74.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Wood Wood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22832/wood-wood/topic/language