Wongarbon · Urban Centre

Language in Wongarbon

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Only 0.8% of people in Wongarbon spoke a language other than English at home in 2021, a figure that has fallen by 3.3 points since 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation.

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📍 Wongarbon, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is the dominant language for 91.7% of residents. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6% for other languages, and no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.

0.8% ▼ -81.5%

Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.1%
  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 2021: 0.8%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Wongarbon, English only is the majority at 99%; Tagalog is next at 1%.

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 Wongarbon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121122/wongarbon/topic/language