5.3% ▲ +1.3%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gisborne · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gisborne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Gisborne, with 91.2% of people using only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, with only 5.3% of residents speaking another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 5.3% of people use a language other than English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the Victorian average of 27.6%. Only 0.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -41.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Gisborne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21001/gisborne/topic/language