30.7% ▲ +46.3%
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Darwin · Council (LGA)
Language in Darwin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 31% of people in Darwin speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure. This linguistic variety has grown significantly over the last decade and marks the city as much more diverse than most Australian areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 60.8% of residents speak only English, the number of people using another language at home rose by 9.7 percentage points since 2011. Common non-English languages include Greek, Mandarin, Tagalog and Vietnamese, though the 3.2% who speak little or no English is about the same as the national figure.
3.2% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 85% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Darwin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA71000/darwin/topic/language