35.8% ▲ +55.4%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Roebourne · Suburb / Locality
Language in Roebourne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people in Roebourne speak another language at home compared to the rest of the state. About 35.8% of residents use a language other than English, which is 17 percentage points above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 35.8% of people use another language at home, very few struggle with English, as only 0.3% speak little or no English. This is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -86.9%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Roebourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51305/roebourne/topic/language