29.2% ▲ +38.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Walkley Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Walkley Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 30% of residents in Walkley Heights use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This creates a multicultural daily environment where a wide variety of global languages are spoken alongside English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 68.4% of people, but the area's diversity is highlighted by the 29.2% who speak another language—a figure well above the national average. Punjabi, Vietnamese, and Hindi are the most common non-English languages, while 2.5% of residents speak little or no English.
2.5% ▼ -25.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Walkley Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41515/walkley-heights/topic/language