5.1% ▲ +283.0%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Waratah · Urban Centre
Language in Waratah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in Waratah, where 87.7% of people speak only this language at home. While the use of other languages has risen since 2011, the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.1% of people now use a language other than English at home, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but far below the Australian average of 22.3%. No one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
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.
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 Waratah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622026/waratah/topic/language