23.6% ▲ +49.6%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 23.6%
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 significant 23.6% of people in Outer Regional Australia speak a language other than English at home. This figure has risen by 7.8 percentage points since 2011, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar regions.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 66.7% of residents, other common languages include Greek (2.3%), Tagalog (1.8%), and Mandarin (1.5%). Around 2.5% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas but about the same as the national figure.
2.5% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 78% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.5%
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/RA72/outer-regional-australia/topic/language