15.4% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waddington · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language patterns in Waddington have remained very stable since 2011. English is the primary tongue for the vast majority of residents, with 88.5% of people speaking only English at home.
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.4% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas, though this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English.
15.4% —
Higher than 84% 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 Waddington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51496/waddington/topic/language