2.6% ▲ +51.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wyreema · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Wyreema, making it a very linguistically uniform place. Only 2.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
English and the largest community languages.
About 94.2% of people speak only English at home. While the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains very low at 0.2%, which is well below the Australian average.
2.6% ▲ +51.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▲ +47.2%
Higher than 63% 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 Wyreema [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33190/wyreema/topic/language