22.2% ▲ +300.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wandi · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wandi
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 74.7% of people in Wandi. However, 22.2% of the community speaks another language at home, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While many people use other languages, only 1.8% speak little or no English, a figure a little below the national average. Beside English, the most common languages heard in the area are Mandarin, Punjabi, Cantonese, and Tagalog.
1.8% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Wandi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51519/wandi/topic/language