17.4% ▲ +44.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woodlands · Suburb / Locality
Language in Woodlands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Woodlands use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While 17.4% of residents speak another language, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 80.1% of the area. Other common languages include Mandarin at 2.7%, Italian at 1.7%, and Cantonese at 1.4%, though very few residents—only 1.6%—speak little or no English.
1.6% ▲ +32.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 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 Woodlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51638/woodlands/topic/language