93.4% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 86.3%
- 2016: 100.0%
- 2021: 93.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Milyakburra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Milyakburra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
An overwhelming 93.4% of people in Milyakburra use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, making it one of the areas with the highest linguistic diversity in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 8.5% of residents speak English only. This helps explain why 26.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure far above both the Northern Territory and Australian averages.
26.4% ▲ +804.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 26.4%
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 Milyakburra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70188/milyakburra/topic/language