4.7% ▲ +6.7%
Lower than 80% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Remainder of State/Territory · Section of State Range
Language in Remainder of State/Territory
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language spoken across the Remainder of State/Territory, where only 4.7% of people use another tongue at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, a pattern that has remained steady for a decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents speak a language other than English, and the 0.6% who speak little or no English is much lower than in most other areas. English is spoken by 87.0% of people, followed by small numbers who use Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, or Cantonese.
0.6% ▲ +18.1%
Lower than 73% of section of state range areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Remainder of State/Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR131/remainder-of-state-territory/topic/language