24.7% ▲ +332.6%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Halls Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Halls Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher proportion of people use a language other than English at home in Halls Creek compared to the state average. This figure has climbed steeply to 24.7% over the last decade, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 61.9% of residents speak only English, the number of people using another language at home rose by 19 percentage points since 2011. Those who speak little or no English make up 2.4% of the population, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
2.4% ▲ +384.4%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 Halls Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521024/halls-creek/topic/language