70.6% ▲ +276.5%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 72.8%
- 2021: 70.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Atitjere · Urban Centre
Language in Atitjere
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than seven out of ten people in Atitjere use a language other than English at home. This proportion has jumped 52 percentage points since 2011, making the area's linguistic diversity far higher than the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 70.6% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the Northern Territory's 32.4%. While 23.5% speak only English, 5.9% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the national average.
5.9% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Atitjere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722008/atitjere/topic/language