27.5% ▲ +82.3%
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Fong Lim · State Electorate
Language in Fong Lim
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over five percentage points more people in Fong Lim use a language other than English at home compared to the national figure. This reflects a diversifying community, with the proportion of people speaking other languages rising 12 percentage points since 2011. Most residents still speak only English, but the area is now more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 27.5% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the Northern Territory figure of 32.4%. The most common non-English languages are Greek, Mandarin, Tagalog and Vietnamese. Only 2.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
2.2% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Fong Lim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70012/fong-lim/topic/language