31.5% ▲ +31.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wattle Park · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wattle Park
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 31.5% of Wattle Park residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the South Australian average. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse of its kind in the region, with a strong presence of Mandarin and Cantonese speakers.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 10.6%, followed by Cantonese at 4.0%. While language diversity is very high, only 4.0% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure.
4.0% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
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 Wattle Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41551/wattle-park/topic/language