4.7% ▲ +38.5%
Lower than 80% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Language in Very Remote Australia
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small increase in the use of non-English languages has been seen across Very Remote Australia since 2011. While English remains the dominant tongue, the proportion of people using another language at home rose by 1.3 percentage points over the decade to reach 4.7%. This remains far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak little or no English, with just 0.4% of the population in this group. This is well below the 3.4% national figure and is much lower than most other areas.
0.4% ▲ —
Lower than 82% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA64/very-remote-australia/topic/language