34.5% ▲ +44.6%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Alawa · Suburb / Locality
Language in Alawa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Alawa compared to the national average. About 34.5% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the 22.3% figure for Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 56.0% of residents, while others include Greek, Mandarin, Tagalog and Vietnamese. About 5.1% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above both the Northern Territory and national averages.
5.1% ▲ +17.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Alawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70003/alawa/topic/language