1.8% ▼ -19.1%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dongara · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dongara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people use a language other than English in Dongara compared to the rest of the country. Only 1.8% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken at home for 91.2% of residents. This explains why the number of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure, sitting at 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Dongara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50416/dongara/topic/language