8.1% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Geraldton · Urban Centre
Language in Geraldton
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 82.2% of people in Geraldton. While the area sees more language diversity than many similar places, the proportion of people using another language at home is still far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 8.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is a fall of 2.1 percentage points since 2011. Very few people—just 0.8%—speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.8% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Geraldton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL512003/geraldton/topic/language