6.1% —
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wangaratta · Urban Centre
Language in Wangaratta
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 88.4% of people in Wangaratta, making it the dominant tongue in the area. While most residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 6.1% since 2016.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.1% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though still far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This include small groups speaking Italian, Punjabi and Mandarin, while those who speak little or no English make up just 0.7% of the population.
0.7% ▲ +68.3%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Wangaratta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213016/wangaratta/topic/language