7.7% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wooreen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wooreen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Wooreen, where 85.7% of residents speak only this language. While a small number of people use other languages at home, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 7.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas, though far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language spoken here, and notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English.
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 Wooreen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22856/wooreen/topic/language