Gympie, Queensland

Languages other than English in Gympie

Gympie is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, 2 per cent of residents used another language at home, most often Afrikaans. The share in Brisbane is at least twice Gympie's. That number was well over a fifth lower in 2016.

Residents: 53,087
Speak another language: 1,086
Languages at home: 59
Change since 2016: +32.0%

Which languages other than English are spoken in Gympie?

These three top a list of small communities.

Afrikaans

127 speakers

Its speaker count has grown by about three quarters since 2016.

German

114 speakers

About 0.2 per cent of all residents.

Mandarin

86 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has grown by about three quarters.

How much less multilingual is Gympie than Queensland?

Across Queensland, a language other than English is at least twice as common. 31 councils in Queensland have a lower share.

Gympie: 2.0%
Queensland: 12.2%
Brisbane: 22.8%

Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.

Gympie's place on the diversity index.

Do Gympie's suburbs differ much?

From Wolvi down to Araluen, the gap is modest.

Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

Blank answers matter here. 3,580 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 2.0%. Count them in and it's 8.8%; drop them from the base and it's 2.2%.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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