5.9% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whiteside · Suburb / Locality
Language in Whiteside
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating in Whiteside, where very few residents use another language at home. Only 5.9% of people speak a language other than English, making this area much more linguistically uniform than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 90.6% of residents speak only English, the 5.9% who use another language is actually higher than in most similar areas. Despite this, it remains far below the Australian figure of 22.3%, and very few people (0.5%) speak little or no English.
0.5% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Whiteside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33064/whiteside/topic/language