5.8% ▲ +31.3%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Language in Inner Regional Australia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of more than 16 percentage points separates Inner Regional Australia from the national average for people using a language other than English at home. Only 5.8% of residents speak another language, making it much less linguistically diverse than most of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary tongue for 87.8% of people, while just 0.8% speak little or no English. Although the number of people using other languages rose 1.4 points since 2011, the area remains far below the national figure of 22.3%.
0.8% ▲ +9.1%
Lower than 55% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA21/inner-regional-australia/topic/language