13.1% ▲ +69.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Woodroffe · Suburb / Locality
Language in Woodroffe
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Woodroffe compared to the rest of the Northern Territory. While 13.1% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most people here speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.6% of residents, though Tagalog is the most common second language at 2.1%. Only 1.6% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
1.6% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Woodroffe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70292/woodroffe/topic/language