38.9% ▲ +85.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 35.5%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wattle Grove · Suburb / Locality
Language in Wattle Grove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 38.9% of people in Wattle Grove use a language other than English at home, which is far above the state and national figures. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind, with over a third of the population speaking a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin is the most common second language at 5.7%, followed by Punjabi, Hindi, and Tagalog. While most residents speak English, 4.3% speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Western Australian average.
4.3% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Wattle Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51549/wattle-grove/topic/language