81.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Warakurna · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than eight in ten people in Warakurna use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at this level.
English and the largest community languages.
About 81.6% of residents speak another language at home, which is far above the 22.3% seen across Australia. This high level of diversity is consistent with the 10.8% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the national average.
81.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
10.8% —
Higher 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 Warakurna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51528/warakurna/topic/language