3.0% ▼ -68.1%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wyee · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.0% of people in Wyee now use a language other than English at home, a figure that has fallen by 6.5 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 94.4% of residents. This explains why the number of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure, sitting at just 0.3%.
3.0% ▼ -68.1%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.3% —
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Wyee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115163/wyee/topic/language