92.3% ▲ +457.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 83.1%
- 2021: 92.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lajamanu · Urban Centre
Language in Lajamanu
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 92% of people in Lajamanu speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a massive shift in the community, as the proportion of people using another language rose by 76 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 5.1% of residents speak English only, which is far above the 22.3% national figure. Despite this, the number of people who speak little or no English fell to 3.1% since 2016, putting it about the same as the Northern Territory and Australia.
3.1% ▼ -77.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Lajamanu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721010/lajamanu/topic/language