10.4% ▲ +38.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
The Gap · Suburb / Locality
Language in The Gap
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in The Gap, though the number of people using other languages at home has risen since 2011. Around 10.4% of residents now speak a language other than English, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 87.8% of residents, the 10.4% who speak another language at home is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas but still a little below the Australian average.
0.8% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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 The Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32790/the-gap/topic/language