40.3% ▲ +231.7%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Roebourne · Urban Centre
Language in Roebourne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of people speak a language other than English in Roebourne (L) than in the rest of the state. About 40.3% of residents use another language at home, which is 22 percentage points above the Western Australian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The number of people using another language at home rose 28 percentage points since 2011. Despite this, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is very low at 0.4%, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.4% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Roebourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521046/roebourne/topic/language