7.1% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitby · Suburb / Locality
Language in Whitby
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 86.2% of people in Whitby, making it a place where very few residents use other languages at home. While this is higher than in many similar areas, the figure is still far below the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 7.1% of people use a language other than English at home, and just 0.4% speak little or no English. Aside from English, the most common languages heard here are Punjabi, Mandarin and Tagalog.
0.4% ▼ -68.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Whitby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51592/whitby/topic/language