33.9% ▲ +601.3%
Higher than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 64.1%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Namatjira · State Electorate
Language in Namatjira
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive jump in linguistic diversity has occurred in Namatjira, where the share of people using another language at home rose by 29 percentage points since 2011. Now, 33.9% of residents speak a language other than English, a figure far above the national average of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While over a third of the community uses another language, English remains the most common choice for 52.2% of homes. Only 3.2% of people speak little or no English, which is about the same as the national figure and represents a 7.2 percentage point drop since 2016.
3.2% ▼ -69.2%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Namatjira [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70019/namatjira/topic/language