7.6% ▲ +179.1%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wagait · Council (LGA)
Language in Wagait
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English in Wagait compared to the rest of the Territory and the nation. While 83.7% of the population speaks only English at home, the number of people using another language has risen to 7.6% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains far below the Northern Territory and Australian figures. English is the dominant tongue here, and the number of people who speak little or no English is well below national and state levels at 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Wagait [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA74560/wagait/topic/language