3.8% ▼ -40.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wangan · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wangan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language use in Wangan has remained very stable over the last decade. English is the dominant tongue here, with only 3.8% of people using another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English, accounting for 85% of the population. While 0.7% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas, this is still a little below the Queensland figure of 1.8%.
0.7% ▼ -40.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.7%
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).
More for Wangan
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Wangan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32981/wangan/topic/language