90.2% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 86.3%
- 2016: 79.9%
- 2021: 90.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Maningrida · Suburb / Locality
Language in Maningrida
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A staggering 90.2% of people in Maningrida speak a language other than English at home, placing the area among the highest for this trait in the region. This is far above the national figure of 22.3%, marking the community as exceptionally linguistically diverse.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents speak only English, with just 6.8% doing so. This is consistent with the fact that 16.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure far above the 3.4% seen across Australia.
16.4% ▲ +59.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 16.4%
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 Maningrida [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70172/maningrida/topic/language