3.6% ▲ +103.6%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
King River · Suburb / Locality
Language in King River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 86.7% of residents in King River. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country, with very few people using a foreign language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is higher than most similar places for the proportion of people who speak little or no English, though this figure remains well below the Australian average at 0.0%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 King River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50761/king-river/topic/language