8.6% ▲ +29.1%
Lower than 53% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.6%
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 gap of 14 percentage points separates Outer Regional Australia from the national average in the number of people using a language other than English at home. While 8.6% of the population speaks another language, this is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. English remains the dominant language here, though the use of other languages has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people in Outer Regional Australia speak only English, accounting for 81.5% of the population. Only 1.0% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4% and has barely changed since 2016.
1.0% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 54% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA32/outer-regional-australia/topic/language