2.9% ▲ +23.7%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waterview Heights · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 92.8% of people in Waterview Heights. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or the nation.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. Meanwhile, 0.5% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than in most similar areas.
2.9% ▲ +23.7%
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.5% ▲ —
Higher than 62% 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 Waterview Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121119/waterview-heights/topic/language