13.4% ▲ +55.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
East Gosford · Suburb / Locality
Language in East Gosford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher share of residents in East Gosford use another language at home than in most similar areas. While 13.4% of the community speaks a non-English language, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 82.3% of the population, though Mandarin is the most common other language. Very few people here speak little or no English at 1.8%, which is a little below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
1.8% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 East Gosford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11352/east-gosford/topic/language