69.0% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 98% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 67.1%
- 2016: 60.2%
- 2021: 69.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
MacDonnell · Council (LGA)
Language in MacDonnell
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people speak a language other than English in MacDonnell than in most similar areas. Around 69% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has climbed slightly since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the rest of the territory.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 69% of people using another language at home is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This is consistent with 10.5% of residents speaking little or no English, which is well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
10.5% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 MacDonnell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA72330/macdonnell/topic/language