3.7% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wandal · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Wandal, where only 3.7% of people use another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, with very few residents needing translation or language support in their daily lives.
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.3% of residents speak only English, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but still well below the Australian average.
3.7% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▲ +103.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Wandal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32979/wandal/topic/language