20.5% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Gawler · Suburb / Locality
Language in Port Gawler
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Port Gawler use a language other than English at home. This is much higher than most similar areas, making the community more linguistically diverse than many nearby neighbours.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 20.5% of residents speak another language, which is a little above the South Australian figure. This diversity is reflected in the use of Italian (7.1%) and Vietnamese (2.7%), while 3.6% of people speak little or no English.
3.6% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Port Gawler [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41195/port-gawler/topic/language