2.9% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waterloo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Waterloo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Waterloo compared to the rest of the country. Only 2.9% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here use English as their only language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 91.2% of residents. While 0% of people speak little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas, despite being well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
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 Waterloo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33006/waterloo/topic/language