17.6% ▲ +69.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Jabiru · Urban Centre
Language in Jabiru
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 69.7% of people in Jabiru (L). While this is the most common tongue, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 17.6% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Almost 70% of residents speak only English, and while 17.6% use another language—a figure well below the national average—this has grown by 7.2 percentage points over the last decade. About 1.9% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas.
1.9% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 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 Jabiru [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721009/jabiru/topic/language