12.5% ▲ +20.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wanneroo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wanneroo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 82.7% of people in Wanneroo. While this is a high proportion, the area has a larger variety of languages spoken at home than most similar places. About 12.5% of residents use a language other than English, though this is well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Among the 12.5% who speak another language at home, Vietnamese is the most common at 1.2%, followed by Mandarin and Italian. Only 1.6% of the population speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Western Australian average.
1.6% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Wanneroo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51526/wanneroo/topic/language