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Western Australia - Outback (North) · Region (SA4)

Language in Western Australia - Outback (North)

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant way of communicating in Western Australia - Outback (North), where 65.8% of people use it as their only language. While a fair number of people use other languages at home, the region is much more linguistically uniform than the national average.

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📍 Western Australia - Outback (North), Region (SA4)

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 16.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This has barely changed since 2016, and the 1.4% who speak little or no English is slightly lower than the national average.

People using another language at home

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16.7% —

Higher than 63% of region (sa4) areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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1.4% ▼ -0.4%

Lower than 52% of region (sa4) areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Western Australia - Outback (North), English only is the majority at 96%; Tagalog is next at 1%.

English only 65.8% Tagalog 0.8% Mandarin 0.5% Italian 0.2% Hindi 0.2% Vietnamese 0.2% Cantonese 0.1% Punjabi 0.1% Arabic 0.1% Greek 0.1%

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 Western Australia - Outback (North) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa4/510/western-australia-outback/topic/language