4.9% ▲ +40.8%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gisborne · Urban Centre
Language in Gisborne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Gisborne, where only 4.9% of residents use another language at home. This is a very high proportion of English speakers compared to the rest of the country, making it a place where most daily interactions happen in one language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 92.1% of the population, there has been a small rise in the use of other languages since 2011. Only 0.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the national average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.3% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Gisborne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL213006/gisborne/topic/language