4.2% ▼ -75.9%
Lower than 85% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 4.2%
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.
A sharp 13 percentage point drop in non-English speakers since 2011 defines the linguistic shift in Inner Regional Australia. Only 4.2% of people now use a language other than English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
With only 4.2% of people using another language at home, this figure is far below the national mark of 22.3%. This is reflected in the fact that no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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/RA91/inner-regional-australia/topic/language