9.2% ▲ +31.2%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 9.2%
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.
About 9.2% of people in Remote Australia use a language other than English at home, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas. While this is far below the national average of 22.3%, the number of people using other languages has risen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.5% of residents, and very few people—just 0.6%—speak little or no English. This is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.6% ▼ -10.7%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA53/remote-australia/topic/language