4.2% ▲ +76.8%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Aratula · Urban Centre
Language in Aratula
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Aratula (L), where 84.8% of people speak only this language at home. Very few residents use other languages, though this has slightly increased over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is a small group, the proportion of people who speak little or no English rose to 0.9% since 2016.
0.9% ▲ —
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Aratula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321004/aratula/topic/language