12.8% —
Higher than 56% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Migratory - Offshore - Shipping · Capital City
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Across Migratory - Offshore - Shipping, limited english is well below average.
English and the largest community languages.
12.8% of residents in Migratory - Offshore - Shipping use a language other than English at home — around the middle of the range (below the national 22.3%). 0.6% of people in Migratory - Offshore - Shipping speak English not well or not at all, down 15.6% since 2016, well below average (below the national 3.4%).
The most common language used at home is English only at 45%, ahead of Tagalog (2%).
12.8% —
Higher than 56% of capital city areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.6% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 88% of capital city areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Migratory - Offshore - Shipping [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/59799/migratory-offshore-shipping/topic/language