92.1% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 93.8%
- 2016: 93.2%
- 2021: 92.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Milingimbi · Urban Centre
Language in Milingimbi
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 92% of people in Milingimbi speak a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for any similar area. This makes the community far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the Northern Territory and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5% of residents use English only at home. While 9.9% of people speak little or no English—a figure well above the national average—this has fallen by 10 percentage points since 2016.
9.9% ▼ -50.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 9.9%
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 Milingimbi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715004/milingimbi/topic/language