27.2% ▲ +47.2%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Araluen · State Electorate
Language in Araluen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of people in Araluen now speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 8.7 percentage points since 2011. While this is well above the national average, it remains well below the Northern Territory figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 27.2% of residents use another language at home, with Punjabi, Mandarin, Tagalog and Hindi being the most common non-English tongues. Despite this diversity, the 2.6% who speak little or no English is about the same as the national figure and has barely changed since 2016.
2.6% ▲ +19.1%
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Araluen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70002/araluen/topic/language