61.9% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 70.6%
- 2016: 55.1%
- 2021: 61.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Warmun · Urban Centre
Language in Warmun
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 62% of people in Warmun speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure. While English is the most common single language, the area has a very high proportion of multilingual residents compared to most other parts of the state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
A large 61.9% of residents use another language at home, though this is 8.6 percentage points lower than in 2011. Meanwhile, 3.7% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the state average and has risen since 2016.
3.7% ▲ +75.6%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Warmun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522064/warmun/topic/language