20.2% ▲ +49.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woorinen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Woorinen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A bigger slice of the Woorinen population now speaks a language other than English compared to previous years. While 20.2% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas, this is still well below the Victorian figure of 27.6%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (59.9%), though Italian is the most common other language at 4.6%. About 3.8% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is among the highest for areas of this size.
3.8% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Woorinen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22858/woorinen/topic/language