3.8% ▲ +42.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Girraween · Suburb / Locality
Language in Girraween
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Girraween, where only 3.8% of people use a different language at home. This is far below the figures for the Northern Territory and Australia, making it one of the more linguistically uniform areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.7% of residents speak only English at home. While the number of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Northern Territory figure at just 0.6%.
0.6% ▲ +23.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Girraween [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70110/girraween/topic/language