12.9% ▲ +306.0%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Upper Gascoyne · Council (LGA)
Language in Upper Gascoyne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Upper Gascoyne than in the rest of the country. While 12.9% of residents use another language at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using other languages rose 9.8 percentage points since 2011, yet English is still used by 78.2% of the population. Notably, no residents reported speaking little or no English, which is much lower than most areas.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) 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).
More for Upper Gascoyne
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Upper Gascoyne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58470/upper-gascoyne/topic/language