8.3% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Gladstone · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Gladstone
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in West Gladstone, where 85.9% of people speak only this language at home. While this means the area is far less linguistically diverse than the national average, a small number of residents still use other languages daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 8.3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Despite this, the 0.7% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
0.7% ▼ -33.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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 West Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL33035/west-gladstone/topic/language