38.3% ▲ +6.1%
Higher than 84% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lingiari · Federal Electorate
Language in Lingiari
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Lingiari than across the rest of the country. About 38.3% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has risen since 2011 and sits well above the Northern Territory average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 50.8% of people speak only English, the area has a much higher rate of people who speak little or no English (5.1%) compared to the national figure. Other languages spoken in the region include Tagalog, Mandarin, Punjabi and Vietnamese.
5.1% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 81% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Lingiari [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED701/lingiari/topic/language