6.2% ▲ +22.0%
Lower than 67% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 6.2%
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.
Fewer people use a language other than English at home in Inner Regional Australia than in most similar areas. While English is the dominant tongue for 85.9% of residents, the proportion of people using another language has risen slightly to 6.2% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.2% of people speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This is reflected in the low number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.6%.
0.6% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 69% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA51/inner-regional-australia/topic/language