16.7% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gemalla · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 17% of people in Gemalla use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. Despite this, the community is far less linguistically diverse than the New South Wales and national averages.
English and the largest community languages.
While 16.7% of residents speak a non-English language, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure well below the 3.4% average for Australia.
16.7% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Gemalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11602/gemalla/topic/language