2.3% ▲ +62.9%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gulgong · Urban Centre
Language in Gulgong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A small increase in the number of people speaking other languages has occurred in Gulgong since 2011. Only 2.3% of the population now uses a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90.9% of residents, and those who speak little or no English are well below the national figure at 0.0%. While the use of other languages rose slightly to 2.3% since 2011, this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Gulgong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115071/gulgong/topic/language