10.7% ▲ +71.0%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gosford · State Electorate
Language in Gosford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in Gosford, where only 10.7% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, though the number of people speaking non-English languages has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 1.4% of residents speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%. While 83.8% speak only English, the most common other languages heard are Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, and Italian.
1.4% ▲ +15.3%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Gosford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10030/gosford/topic/language