1.1% ▼ -66.0%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Smithtown - Gladstone · Urban Centre
Language in Smithtown - Gladstone
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge gap exists between Smithtown - Gladstone (L) and the rest of the country, with just 1.1% of people using a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%. The area is almost entirely English-speaking and has seen a drop in language diversity over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 90.7% of residents, while the proportion of people using another language fell 2.1 percentage points since 2011. This helps explain why the 0.0% of people who speak little or no English is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Smithtown - Gladstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121103/smithtown-gladstone/topic/language