87.9% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 86.8%
- 2016: 88.5%
- 2021: 87.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ampilatwatja · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ampilatwatja
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people speak a language other than English at home in Ampilatwatja than in the rest of the country. Nearly 88% of residents use another language, which is 66 percentage points above the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 87.9% of people here use a language other than English at home, and 10.5% speak little or no English. These figures are well above the Northern Territory and national averages, with only 6.4% of residents speaking English only.
10.5% ▲ +32.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 10.5%
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 Ampilatwatja [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70009/ampilatwatja/topic/language