7.9% ▲ +32.5%
Lower than 56% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 7.9%
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 tongue for 79.6% of people across Remote Australia. While the proportion of people using another language at home has risen slightly to 7.9%, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.9% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is around the middle for similar areas. Very few people speak little or no English (0.6%), a figure that is a little below the Australian average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.6% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.6%
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/RA33/remote-australia/topic/language