7.5% ▲ +166.0%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Gingin · Urban Centre
Language in Gingin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Gingin than in most similar areas, though this is still far below the state and national figures. While 86.5% of residents speak only English, the number of people using another language at home rose to 7.5% in 2021.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Tagalog, Mandarin, Cantonese and Greek are the most common non-English languages spoken here. This is a change from 2011, when only 2.8% of people used another language at home. Very few residents, just 0.9%, speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +98.7%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Gingin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521021/gingin/topic/language