81.9% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 79.7%
- 2016: 80.1%
- 2021: 81.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Yuendumu · Urban Centre
Language in Yuendumu
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than eight out of ten people in Yuendumu use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of the territory and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 81.9% of residents speak another language at home, a figure that rose 2.2 percentage points since 2011 and sits far above the national average. Alongside this, 6.2% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the Northern Territory figure.
6.2% ▲ +43.7%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.2%
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).
More for Yuendumu
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Yuendumu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721017/yuendumu/topic/language