10.5% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
McArthur · Suburb / Locality
Language in McArthur
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for most of the McArthur community, though a tenth of the population uses another language at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, even though it is far less diverse than the Northern Territory as a whole.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. While 52.8% speak only English, Tagalog is the most common second language at 1.5%, and only 0.8% of residents speak little or no English.
0.8% ▼ -43.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 McArthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70180/mcarthur/topic/language