17.0% ▲ +798.5%
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gibson · State Electorate
Language in Gibson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 17% of residents in Gibson speak a language other than English at home, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas. While the area is well below the national average for linguistic diversity, it has seen a rapid shift with the proportion of non-English speakers rising by 15 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 79.5% of people, with Mandarin being the most common other language at 2.8%. Only 2.1% of residents speak little or no English, a result that is about the same as the South Australian figure.
2.1% ▲ +37.6%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Gibson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40018/gibson/topic/language