35.6% ▲ +136.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woolner · Suburb / Locality
Language in Woolner
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of residents in Woolner use a language other than English at home, placing it among the highest for language diversity at this level. This 35.6% figure is far above the national average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 60.5% of the area speaks only English, others use Mandarin, Greek, Tagalog or Punjabi. Only 2.1% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
2.1% ▲ +28.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Woolner [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70293/woolner/topic/language