94.3% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 91.7%
- 2016: 84.2%
- 2021: 94.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Arnhem · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Arnhem
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 94.3% of people in East Arnhem speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.1% of residents speak English only. This helps explain why 27.9% of the population speak little or no English, a figure far above the 3.4% seen across Australia.
27.9% ▲ +233.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 27.9%
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 East Arnhem [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70086/east-arnhem/topic/language