92.1% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 93.9%
- 2016: 93.2%
- 2021: 92.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Milingimbi · Suburb / Locality
Language in Milingimbi
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 92.1% of people in Milingimbi use a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the country, where only a small minority of residents speak English exclusively.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here speak English only, at just 5%. This high use of other languages is consistent with 9.9% of residents speaking little or no English, which is well above the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
9.9% ▼ -50.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 9.9%
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 Milingimbi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70186/milingimbi/topic/language