15.5% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gordon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Gordon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A variety of languages are spoken in Gordon, though English remains the primary way people communicate. While 15.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, this is well below the figures for both the ACT and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home for 81.5% of people. Small numbers of residents speak Arabic, Punjabi, Vietnamese or Hindi, and while 1.7% speak little or no English, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.7% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Gordon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80064/gordon/topic/language