15.0% ▲ +37.6%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tea Tree Gully · Council (LGA)
Language in Tea Tree Gully
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 7.3 percentage points separates Tea Tree Gully from the national average for non-English speakers. While 15% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is well below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This diversity has grown over the last decade, with the number of people using another language rising by 4.1 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 82.2% of people, though Punjabi, Italian and Mandarin are also spoken. While 1.7% of residents speak little or no English, which is much higher than in most similar areas, this figure has barely changed since 2016.
1.7% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Tea Tree Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA47700/tea-tree-gully/topic/language