81.7% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 95.5%
- 2016: 86.4%
- 2021: 81.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Home Island · Suburb / Locality
Language in Home Island
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 81.7% of people on Home Island use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by only 2.2% of residents. This helps explain why 28.6% of the population speak little or no English, a figure far above both the rest of the territories and the Australian average.
28.6% ▼ -20.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 28.6%
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 Home Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL90002/home-island/topic/language