4.1% ▲ +245.9%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Georgetown · Urban Centre
Language in Georgetown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle of similar areas for language diversity, Georgetown (L) is a community where the vast majority speak English. Only 4.1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While the share of people using other languages rose to 4.1% since 2011, English remains the dominant tongue for 79.7% of residents. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Georgetown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322048/georgetown/topic/language