3.8% ▲ +30.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gawler East · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as most similar areas, Gawler East is a place where very few people use a language other than English. Only 3.8% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the figures for South Australia and the rest of the country.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 93.2% of the population. Very few people speak little or no English at 0.4%, a figure that is well below the national average.
3.8% ▲ +30.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Gawler East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40476/gawler-east/topic/language