11.6% ▲ +253.3%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tintinara · Urban Centre
Language in Tintinara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A rise in non-English speaking residents has seen 11.6% of people in Tintinara now use another language at home. This is a significant jump from just 3.3% in 2011, making the area more linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 86.3% of people speak only English, the share of those using other languages at home has risen to 11.6%, though this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 1.4% of residents speak little or no English, a small increase since 2016.
1.4% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Tintinara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422056/tintinara/topic/language