3.7% ▲ +118.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gunnedah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gunnedah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Gunnedah, with only 3.7% of residents speaking another language at home. This is a very low figure compared to the New South Wales average of 26.6%. Most people here communicate exclusively in English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 0.5% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the state average of 4.5%. While 87.7% use only English, small numbers of people speak Tagalog, Mandarin, and Punjabi.
0.5% ▲ +49.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Gunnedah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11818/gunnedah/topic/language