10.4% ▲ +13.3%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wilston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wilston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher rates of multilingualism than most similar areas define Wilston, though English remains the dominant tongue. About 10.4% of people here speak a language other than English at home, which is significantly more common than in nearby suburbs.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 87.6% of residents speak only English, 10.4% use another language, including small numbers of Italian, Mandarin, Hindi, and Punjabi speakers. This is much higher than in most similar areas, though only 1.0% of the population speak little or no English.
1.0% ▲ +64.8%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Wilston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33089/wilston/topic/language