3.2% ▲ +31.9%
Lower than 96% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Outback - South · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Outback - South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way people communicate in Outback - South, where only 3.2% of residents use another language at home. This is far below the figures for Queensland and Australia, making it one of the least linguistically diverse areas in the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (86.0%), and the number of people using other languages has barely changed since 2011. Very few people speak little or no English (0.6%), which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.6% ▲ +22.1%
Lower than 71% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Outback - South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31503/outback-south/topic/language