91.5% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 91.8%
- 2016: 88.5%
- 2021: 91.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Wugular (Beswick) · Urban Centre
Language in Wugular (Beswick)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 92% of people in Wugular (Beswick) (L) speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the national average of 22.3%. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region. This high level of diversity has remained steady over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents speak only English, with just 4.4% doing so. Meanwhile, the proportion of people who speak little or no English has risen sharply to 19.9%, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 3.9%.
19.9% ▲ +811.2%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 19.9%
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 Wugular (Beswick) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721015/wugular/topic/language