14.6% ▲ +203.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woorarra West · Suburb / Locality
Language in Woorarra West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English in Woorarra West than in the rest of Victoria. While about 14.6% of residents speak another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly 80% of people speak only English at home. This explains why there are no residents who speak little or no English, a result that is well below the Victorian average of 4.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 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 Woorarra West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22855/woorarra-west/topic/language