43.2% ▲ +21.4%
Higher than 90% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 35.6%
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barkly · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Barkly
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of the population in Barkly speaks a language other than English at home. This makes the region far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, with the proportion of people using other languages rising to 43.2% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 47.4% of residents, 43.2% use another language—a figure far above the national average. Despite this diversity, the 3.3% of people who speak little or no English is about the same as the national figure.
3.3% ▼ -23.8%
Higher than 74% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Barkly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/70202/barkly/topic/language