We are Gympie

2 per cent.

2 in every 100 Gympie residents speak a language other than English at home. 1,086 people, in 59 languages — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to be a community.

Our population
53,087
Speak another language
1,086
Languages at home
59
Growth since last census
+32.0%

Most of us speak English at home. 1,086 of us do not, across 59 languages, most often Afrikaans, German and Mandarin. Small communities are the ones a mainstream service misses first and notices last — which is the whole reason to count them.

In Queensland

#64

of 76 Queensland councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #439 of 540 nationally.

What makes our community ours

Afrikaans

127 speakers

Afrikaans is spoken by 127 of our residents at home, 0.2% of Gympie.

German

114 speakers

German is spoken by 114 of our residents at home, 0.2% of Gympie.

Mandarin

86 speakers

Mandarin is spoken by 86 of our residents at home, 0.2% of Gympie.

The languages of Gympie

59 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

  • Grew 50%+
  • 25%+
  • 10%+
  • Held
  • Slipped
  • Declined 10%+
  • Not comparable
The 18 most spoken languages in Gympie, covering 842 speakers. Area is speakers at the 2021 Census; tint is the change since 2016. Every figure is also in the table below.

Every language, in order

Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.

  1. 01
    Afrikaans
    127+89.6%
  2. 02
    German
    114-14.3%
  3. 03
    Mandarin
    86+83.0%
  4. 04
    Tagalog
    71+65.1%
  5. 05
    Punjabi
    68+127%
  6. 06
    French
    47-4.1%
  7. 07
    Thai
    44+83.3%
  8. 08
    Dutch
    38+31.0%
  9. 09
    Vietnamese
    34+30.8%
  10. 10
    Italian
    32+10.3%

Why we publish this

2.0% of us

We share this portrait because a council below the Queensland average is the one most likely to be planned for as though everybody here reads English. 1,086 of us do not, at home, and a service that reaches everyone except them has not reached everyone. This almanac exists so that the number is on the record before the decision is made.

Who we are, beyond language

Where we were born

9.7% of us were born overseas, across 67 countries.

  1. 01
    England
    1,848+6.4%
  2. 02
    New Zealand
    1,317+15.7%
  3. 03
    South Africa
    276+71.4%
  4. 04
    Philippines
    265+30.5%
  5. 05
    Germany
    222-3.5%
  6. 06
    Scotland
    135+7.1%
  7. 07
    Netherlands
    129-3.0%
  8. 08
    United States of America
    119+11.2%
  9. 09
    India
    97+106%
  10. 10
    Canada
    63+70.3%

What we believe

Reported affiliation in Gympie at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.

  1. 01
    Christianity
    24,379-14.1%
  2. 02
    No religion or secular beliefs
    23,338+55.5%
  3. 03
    Buddhism
    290-22.7%
  4. 04
    Hinduism
    55+12.2%
  5. 05
    Islam
    47+27.0%
  6. 06
    Judaism
    7-65.0%

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 53 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are

Gympie shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.

In context

Gympie
2.0%
Queensland
12.2%
Australia
21.3%

2.0% of Gympie residents speak a language other than English at home, against 12.2% for Queensland and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

How the headline share is counted. 2.0% is 1,086 residents as a share of all 53,087 of us. A further 3,580 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 8.8%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 2.2%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Gympie, it is almost certainly one of those two.

Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Gympie figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.

Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Gympie.