25.4% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rakula · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A quarter of residents in Rakula now use a language other than English at home, a figure that sits well above the national average. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the Northern Territory average.
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.4% of people use a language other than English at home, though 45.8% speak English only. Despite this diversity, not a single person in the area speaks little or no English, which is well below the figures for both the Territory and Australia.
25.4% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Rakula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70228/rakula/topic/language