6.0% ▲ —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wongabel · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for nearly everyone in Wongabel, where 86.9% of the population speaks only this language. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than the rest of the country, as very few residents use another language at home.
English and the largest community languages.
While 6% of people use a language other than English at home—which is higher than in most similar areas—this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
6.0% ▲ —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Wongabel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33123/wongabel/topic/language