3.9% ▲ +13.6%
Lower than 88% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 3.9%
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.
Only 3.9% of people in the Remainder of State/Territory use a language other than English at home. This makes it a very linguistically uniform region compared to the rest of the country. The vast majority of residents speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the sole language for 86.6% of residents, and the 3.9% who speak another language is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This stability is reflected in the fact that only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.4% ▲ +7.5%
Lower than 85% of section of state range areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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/SOSR331/remainder-of-state-territory/topic/language