14.6% —
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North West Central (Mining and Pastoral) · State Electorate
Language in North West Central (Mining and Pastoral)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way of communicating in North West Central (Mining and Pastoral), where 67.5% of people speak only English at home. While more people have started using other languages recently, the area remains far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure that rose 3.7 percentage points since 2016 but remains well below the national average. Very few people struggle with English, as only 1.5% speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian figure.
1.5% ▲ +45.2%
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 North West Central (Mining and Pastoral) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54203/north-west-central/topic/language