11.0% ▼ -21.0%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Barron River · State Electorate
Language in Barron River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 82.3% of people in Barron River. This is a high proportion compared to the national average, making the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 11% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has fallen since 2011 and is far below the national average. Very few people struggle with English, as only 0.9% speak little or no English.
0.9% ▼ -51.5%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Barron River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30004/barron-river/topic/language