18.7% —
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wallan · Urban Centre
Language in Wallan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Wallan now speak a language other than English at home. While 18.7% of residents use another language, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%. This shift is a recent one, with the number of people using another language rising by 9.1 percentage points since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most of the community speaks only English, but Punjabi is the most common second language at 4.6%. Those who speak little or no English make up 2.0% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas.
2.0% ▼ -17.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
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 Wallan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213015/wallan/topic/language