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Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park's language statistics show the proportion of the population who use a language at home other than English. They indicate how culturally diverse a population is and the degree to which different ethnic groups and nationalities are retaining their language.
Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park's language statistics should be analysed in conjunction with Country of Birth and Proficiency in English to assist in identifying specific cultural and ethnic groups in the area and the services required by the multicultural community.
Please note: Due to ABS rules regarding perturbation of data to protect the confidentiality of individuals, counts of individual language groups and totals derived from them may differ slightly from those published by the ABS.
Q:
Derived from the Census question:
'Does the person use a language other than English at home?'
| Language used at home - Summary | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park - Total persons (Usual residence) | 2021 | 2001 | Change | ||||
| Language summary | Number | % | Andrews Farm % | Number | % | Andrews Farm % | 2001 to 2021 |
| Speaks English only | 609 | 59.1 | 81.7 | 531 | 57.0 | 93.6 | +78 |
| Non-English total | 312 | 30.3 | 13.9 | 369 | 39.6 | 3.6 | -57 |
| Not stated | 110 | 10.7 | 4.4 | 32 | 3.4 | 2.8 | +78 |
| Total Population | 1,031 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 932 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +99 |
Dominant groups
Analysis of the language used at home by the population of Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park in 2021 compared to Andrews Farm shows that there was a smaller proportion of people who used English only, and a larger proportion of those using a non-English language (either exclusively, or in addition to English).
Overall, 59.1% of the population used English only, and 30.3% used a non-English language, compared with 81.7% and 13.9% respectively for Andrews Farm.
The dominant language used at home, other than English, in Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park was Vietnamese, with 12.7% of the population, or 131 people using this language at home.
The major differences between the languages used at home for the population of Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park and Andrews Farm in 2021 were:
- A larger percentage using Vietnamese at home (12.7% compared to 0.4%)
- A larger percentage using Italian at home (4.3% compared to 0.3%)
- A larger percentage using Khmer at home (3.6% compared to 0.5%)
- A larger percentage using Greek at home (2.2% compared to 0.2%)
Emerging groups
Between 2001 and 2021, the number of people who used a language other than English at home decreased by 57 or 15.4%, and the number of people who used English only increased by 78 or 14.7%.
The largest change in the languages used by the population in Waterloo Corner - Buckland Park between 2001 and 2021 was for those using:
- Italian (-67 persons)
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