53.3% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 64.0%
- 2016: 64.2%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Arumbera · Suburb / Locality
Language in Arumbera
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Arumbera use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse at this level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 39.7% of residents, 53.3% use another language at home, which is far above the Northern Territory rate of 32.4%. About 3.9% of people speak little or no English, a figure about the same as the state and national averages.
3.9% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 3.9%
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 Arumbera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70019/arumbera/topic/language