We are Wattle Range

2 per cent.

2 in every 100 Wattle Range residents speak a language other than English at home. 292 people, in 32 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.

Our population
12,405
Speak another language
292
Languages at home
32
Growth since last census
+39.0%

Most of us speak English at home. 292 of us do not, across 32 languages, most often Italian, Mandarin and Punjabi. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.

In South Australia

#45

of 70 South Australia councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #413 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Italian

64 speakers

Italian is spoken by 64 of our residents at home, 0.5% of Wattle Range.

Mandarin

36 speakers

Mandarin is spoken by 36 of our residents at home, 0.3% of Wattle Range.

Punjabi

22 speakers

Punjabi is spoken by 22 of our residents at home, 0.2% of Wattle Range.

The languages of Wattle Range

32 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Wattle Range, covering 247 speakers. Area is speakers at the 2021 Census; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

Every language, in order

Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.

  1. 01
    Italian
    640%
  2. 02
    Mandarin
    36+125%
  3. 03
    Punjabi
    22+69.2%
  4. 04
    Afrikaans
    18-21.7%
  5. 05
    Filipino
    18+80.0%
  6. 06
    Dutch
    12-20.0%
  7. 07
    Non-verbal, so described
    11
  8. 08
    Nepali
    10
  9. 09
    German
    80%
  10. 10
    Tagalog
    8

Why we publish this

2.4% of us

We share this portrait because a council below the South Australia average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 292 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.

Who we are, beyond language

Where we were born

7.4% of us were born overseas, across 35 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    376+5.9%
  2. 02
    New Zealand
    93-1.1%
  3. 03
    Philippines
    59+40.5%
  4. 04
    Scotland
    54+5.9%
  5. 05
    Netherlands
    48-29.4%
  6. 06
    Germany
    47+88.0%
  7. 07
    Italy
    44-24.1%
  8. 08
    China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)
    29+480%
  9. 09
    South Africa
    27+22.7%
  10. 10
    United States of America
    24+300%

What we believe

Reported affiliation in Wattle Range at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    No religion or secular beliefs
    6,462+34.4%
  2. 02
    Christianity
    4,671-24.9%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    48+11.6%
  4. 04
    Islam
    30+900%
  5. 05
    Hinduism
    17+325%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 15 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Wattle Range shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.

In context

Wattle Range
2.4%
South Australia
16.9%
Australia
21.3%

2.4% of Wattle Range residents speak a language other than English at home, against 16.9% for South Australia and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

How the headline share is counted. 2.4% is 292 residents as a share of all 12,405 of us. A further 835 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 9.1%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 2.5%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Wattle Range, it is almost certainly one of those two.

Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Wattle Range figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.

Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Wattle Range.