7.0% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wuk Wuk · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wuk Wuk
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 90.7% of people in Wuk Wuk. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, it has a higher proportion of people using other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Around 3.5% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the national average.
3.5% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
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 Wuk Wuk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22869/wuk-wuk/topic/language