Coomalie, Northern Territory

Languages spoken in Coomalie

Coomalie is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 58 people used another language at home, most often Vietnamese. Across the Northern Territory, a language other than English is at least twice as common. The count of other-language speakers has eased since 2016.

Residents: 1,206
Speak another language: 58
Languages at home: 16
Change since 2016: −12.1%

Which languages other than English are spoken in Coomalie?

Vietnamese leads a short list of small communities.

Vietnamese

11 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Spanish

9 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

Filipino

8 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

Is Coomalie typical of Australia as a whole?

Coomalie's share is less than half the national share. Only eight councils in the Northern Territory rank higher.

Coomalie: 4.8%
Australia: 21.3%
Northern Territory: 32.1%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

Coomalie's place on the diversity index.

Which parts of Coomalie are most multilingual?

Suburb pages list every language counted in that suburb.

BatchelorLed by Kriol6%22
Darwin River DamLed by Vietnamese4%27
Adelaide RiverLed by Spanish4%9
The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 3 suburbs listed.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

How the headline share is counted: 4.8% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 286 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 28.5%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 6.3%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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