48.5% ▲ +55.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 43.5%
- 2021: 48.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gepps Cross · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gepps Cross
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of Gepps Cross residents speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in its category.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Vietnamese is the most common second language here, spoken by 11.1% of people, followed by Punjabi at 7.3%. About 48.5% of the population uses a language other than English at home, which helps explain why 9.7% of residents speak little or no English—a figure well above the South Australian average.
9.7% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 9.7%
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 Gepps Cross [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40483/gepps-cross/topic/language