12.3% ▲ +39.0%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Karratha · Urban Centre
Language in Karratha
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Most people in Karratha communicate in English, though a growing number of residents now use other languages in their daily lives. While 72.3% of the population speaks only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 12.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Karratha's use of other languages is much higher than in most similar areas, even though it remains well below the Australian figure of 22.3%. Aside from English, the most common languages spoken are Tagalog, Mandarin and Hindi, while the 0.9% who speak little or no English is a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.9% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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 Karratha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513003/karratha/topic/language