2.5% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ward Belt · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 92.4% of people in Ward Belt. This area is far less linguistically diverse than most of the state and the country, with very few residents using a language other than English at home.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.5% of residents use another language at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is seen as higher than most similar areas for the 0.0% of people who speak little or no English.
2.5% —
Lower than 57% 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 Ward Belt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41534/ward-belt/topic/language