11.1% ▲ +20.0%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wynnum West · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wynnum West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 11 percentage points separates Wynnum West from the national average in the proportion of people who speak another language at home. While only 11.1% of residents use a non-English language, this is still much higher than most similar areas. English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 84.4% of people at home, with small numbers speaking Mandarin, Hindi, Tagalog and Vietnamese. While 11.1% use another language—which is much higher than in similar areas—this is a little below the Queensland figure and far below the national average. Only 1.2% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the state average.
1.2% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Wynnum West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33189/wynnum-west/topic/language