6.6% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wellington Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wellington Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small but steady rise in non-English speakers has been seen in Wellington Point since 2011. While 6.6% of the community now uses another language at home, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most residents speak only English, making the area more linguistically uniform than many other Australian suburbs.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.8% of residents, with Mandarin as the most common other language at 0.7%. Only 0.5% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for both Queensland and Australia.
0.5% ▼ -13.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Wellington Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33027/wellington-point/topic/language