26.9% ▲ +80.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gillen · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gillen
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Gillen, where 65.5% of people use it exclusively at home. While the area is more linguistically diverse than the national average, it is less so than other parts of the Northern Territory.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.9% of residents speak another language at home, which is well above the Australian figure. This is among the highest rates for similar areas, though 2.7% of people still speak little or no English.
2.7% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Gillen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70109/gillen/topic/language