14.3% ▲ +178.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Birdum · Suburb / Locality
Language in Birdum
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue in Birdum, where 54.0% of people speak it exclusively. While some residents use other languages at home, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the Northern Territory.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.3% of people use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, though still well below the national figure. Despite this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Birdum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70034/birdum/topic/language