21.3% ▲ +64.1%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Katherine · Urban Centre
Language in Katherine
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Among the highest of similar areas for linguistic variety, Katherine sees 21.3% of residents using a language other than English at home. This figure has risen by 8.3 percentage points since 2011, though it remains far below the Northern Territory average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 62.8% of people, while others speak Tagalog, Punjabi, or Mandarin. Only 1.9% of the population speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.9% ▲ +18.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL714001/katherine/topic/language