2.3% ▲ —
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Whitton · Urban Centre
Language in Whitton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small number of people have started using languages other than English at home in Whitton (L) since 2011. While 86.4% of residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language at home rose by 2.3 percentage points over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. However, the number of people who speak little or no English rose to 0.9% since 2016, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ —
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Whitton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122149/whitton/topic/language