6.7% ▲ +35.6%
Lower than 64% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Language in Outer Regional Australia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people are speaking languages other than English in Outer Regional Australia, with the figure rising 1.8 points since 2011. While 85.5% of the population still speaks only English at home, the proportion of people using another language has reached 6.7%. This remains far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.7% of people use another language at home, which is lower than most areas. Despite this, 1.5% of residents speak little or no English—a figure that is higher than most similar areas, though still a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
1.5% ▲ +50.2%
Higher than 64% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA22/outer-regional-australia/topic/language