3.5% ▲ +59.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Inverness · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by almost everyone in Inverness, with 94.3% of people using only this language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.5% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While 0.0% of residents speak little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
3.5% ▲ +59.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Inverness [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31404/inverness/topic/language