5.1% ▲ +64.5%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gelorup · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gelorup
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Gelorup, where only 5.1% of people use another language at home. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the national average. While this is higher than most similar areas, the vast majority of residents speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 91.5% of residents speak only English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3% for other languages. Only 0.4% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the Australian average.
0.4% ▲ +171.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.1%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Gelorup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50533/gelorup/topic/language