1.8% ▲ +426.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Taroom · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Taroom speaks English daily, making it far less linguistically diverse than most of the country. Only 1.8% of residents use another language at home, which is a tiny fraction compared to the national figure.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.9% of the population. This is far below the 22.3% of Australians who speak another language at home, and no residents report speaking little or no English.
1.8% ▲ +426.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
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 Taroom [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32755/taroom/topic/language