7.0% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whyalla · Suburb / Locality
Language in Whyalla
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 88.5% of Whyalla residents. While more people here use a language other than English at home compared to most similar areas, the city remains far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7% of people speak another language at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, a figure slightly below the national average of 3.4%.
0.4% ▼ -40.3%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Whyalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41585/whyalla/topic/language