88.6% ▲ +1500.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 51.3%
- 2021: 88.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Balgo · Urban Centre
Language in Balgo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive 88.6% of people in Balgo speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This represents a huge shift for the area, as the proportion of people using other languages has jumped 83 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 7.6% of residents speak English only. This is consistent with the high number of people using other languages and the 8.7% who speak little or no English, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 2.3%.
8.7% ▲ +122.7%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 Balgo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522001/balgo/topic/language