7.2% ▲ +28.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gymea Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gymea Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people use a language other than English at home in Gymea Bay than in most similar areas, though the figure is still very low overall. Only 7.2% of residents speak a different language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 90.8% of people speak only English, the 0.8% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas. The most common non-English languages spoken here are Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, and Italian.
0.8% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Gymea Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11834/gymea-bay/topic/language