7.3% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wool Wool · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wool Wool
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Wool Wool, though the use of other languages has grown since 2011. While 85.5% of the area speaks only English, some residents now use other languages at home, including a small group of Mandarin speakers.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.3% 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%. No one in the area reported speaking little or no English, a result well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Wool Wool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22847/wool-wool/topic/language