6.9% ▼ -27.2%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gladstone · Urban Area
Language in Gladstone
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle for its level compared to similar areas, Gladstone has a population where most people speak only English. Only 6.9% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87% of the area, and the share of people using other languages fell to 6.9% since 2011. This helps explain why very few residents—just 0.6%—speak little or no English, a figure lower than most other areas.
0.6% ▼ -63.3%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3006/gladstone/topic/language