2.8% ▼ -21.7%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gympie · State Electorate
Language in Gympie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Gympie, where only 2.8% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure and represents one of the lowest rates for any similar area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.4% of residents speak only English, and the proportion of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure at just 0.3%. These figures have barely changed since 2016, with other spoken languages including Mandarin, Tagalog, Punjabi and Vietnamese.
0.3% ▼ -56.7%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Gympie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30032/gympie/topic/language