83.3% ▲ +24.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 66.7%
- 2016: 80.1%
- 2021: 83.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yirrkala · Suburb / Locality
Language in Yirrkala
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
An incredibly high proportion of people in Yirrkala speak a language other than English at home, ranking among the highest for this across similar areas. While 83.3% use another language, only 12.2% of the community speak English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 83.3% of people using another language is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This is consistent with 6.7% of residents speaking little or no English, which is well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
6.7% ▲ +54.8%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Yirrkala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70299/yirrkala/topic/language