2.9% ▼ -47.7%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Adelaide River · Urban Centre
Language in Adelaide River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 2.9% of people in Adelaide River (L) speak a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area where English is the overwhelming primary language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 73.3% of the area. The proportion of people using another language at home fell 2.6 percentage points since 2011, and unlike the state average, no one here speaks little or no English.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Adelaide River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722001/adelaide-river/topic/language