4.2% ▲ +751.4%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gladstone · Urban Centre
Language in Gladstone
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Gladstone (L) (SA), where only 4.2% of people use another language at home. This is far below both the state and national figures, though the proportion of non-English speakers has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 84.1% of residents, and the few who speak another language at home most commonly use Mandarin. Only 0.6% of the population speaks little or no English, which is a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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/ucl/UCL421012/gladstone/topic/language