5.8% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wagerup · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Wagerup compared to the rest of the country. Only 5.8% of residents use another language at home, which is a huge gap below the 22.3% national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most Australian regions.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.4% of the population. While the 5.8% who speak another language is higher than in similar areas, it remains well below the state average, and no one in the community speaks little or no English.
5.8% —
Higher than 64% 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 Wagerup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51499/wagerup/topic/language