6.3% ▲ +31.3%
Lower than 53% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Gambier · Urban Area
Language in Mount Gambier
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for nearly everyone in Mount Gambier, where only 6.3% of people use another tongue at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of South Australia and the nation, though the use of other languages has risen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 88% of residents speak only English, 1.3% of people speak little or no English, which is higher than most similar areas. The small number of non-English speakers include those using Italian, Mandarin, Punjabi, and Greek.
1.3% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Mount Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4002/mount-gambier/topic/language