17.5% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gibb · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language patterns in Gibb have remained largely stable over the last decade, though the community is more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. About 17.5% of people speak a language other than English at home, a figure that is much higher than in most similar regions.
English and the largest community languages.
While 17.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
17.5% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Gibb [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50538/gibb/topic/language