6.0% ▼ -23.6%
Lower than 57% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wangaratta · Urban Area
Language in Wangaratta
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for the vast majority of people in Wangaratta. Only 6.0% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. This means the town is much less linguistically diverse than the state average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 88.5% of the population speaks only English, and those using other languages at home have fallen to 6.0% since 2011. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.7% speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the Victorian average.
0.7% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2019/wangaratta/topic/language