4.2% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waterloo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Waterloo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far smaller proportion of people speak a language other than English in Waterloo compared to the rest of the state. Only 4.2% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home by 88.2% of the population. While 0.0% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Western Australian figure, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Waterloo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51545/waterloo/topic/language