4.0% ▲ +54.2%
Lower than 87% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Language in Remote Australia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken in Remote Australia, where nearly 80% of people use it as their only language at home. Very few residents speak a language other than English, and the area has a much lower proportion of non-English speakers than most other regions.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This has risen slightly since 2011, but the number of people who speak little or no English remains very low at 0.5%.
0.5% ▲ +31.5%
Lower than 75% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA13/remote-australia/topic/language