6.8% ▲ +33.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Gambier · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Gambier
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Mount Gambier, where 87.5% of residents speak only this language at home. Very few people here use a language other than English, making it a much less linguistically diverse area than the state or national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.8% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While a small 1.4% of residents speak little or no English, this is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
1.4% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Mount Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40947/mount-gambier/topic/language