89.8% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 93.2%
- 2016: 90.5%
- 2021: 89.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Warruwi · Suburb / Locality
Language in Warruwi
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 89.8% of people in Warruwi speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This creates a huge gap compared to the rest of Australia, where only 22.3% of people do the same. Only 5.6% of the population use English as their only language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Almost 90% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far above the Northern Territory's 32.4%. Consistent with this high diversity, 7.2% of people speak little or no English, a rate well above the national figure of 3.4%.
7.2% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Warruwi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70281/warruwi/topic/language