45.7% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.4%
- 2016: 46.6%
- 2021: 45.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kakadu · Suburb / Locality
Language in Kakadu
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people use a language other than English at home in Kakadu compared to the rest of the country. Nearly 46% of residents speak another language, which is 23 percentage points above the national figure. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse at its level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 34% of people speak only English, the diversity is high, though only 2.5% of residents speak little or no English. This figure is about the same as the national average, despite the high number of people using other languages at home.
2.5% ▼ -53.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Kakadu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70140/kakadu/topic/language