3.8% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gwandalan · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gwandalan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost everyone in Gwandalan speaks only English at home, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Just 3.8% of people use another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This means English is the dominant way people communicate in daily life here.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 91.7% of residents speak only English, 0.7% speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas. Other languages spoken in the community are rare, with Italian and Greek being the most common non-English languages.
0.7% ▲ +260.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Gwandalan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11831/gwandalan/topic/language