14.6% —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wollongong · Urban Centre
Language in Wollongong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 80.9% of people in Wollongong. While more residents here use another language at home than in most similar areas, the overall share is still well below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.6% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that fell slightly since 2016. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it remains far below the New South Wales average. The most common non-English languages are Italian and Arabic, each spoken by 1.2% of residents, followed by Mandarin at 0.9% and Greek at 0.7%. Very few people—just 2.3%—speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure.
2.3% ▼ -16.4%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Wollongong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102005/wollongong/topic/language