12.1% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kununurra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kununurra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in ten people in Kununurra speak a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While this variety is greater than in many small towns, the figure is still far below the national average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 12.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, though very few—just 0.9%—speak little or no English. Most people speak only English (70%), while others use languages such as Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.
0.9% ▼ -17.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Kununurra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50799/kununurra/topic/language