	Languages spoken in South Africa, by metro municipalities
Category	Demographics
Description	The percentage of the population that speaks each of South Africa's 12 official languages most often in the household by metro politan municipality. Data is from Statistics South Africa's 2022 national censuses.
Source	Census 2022. Cultural Dynamics in South Africa, StatsSA 2025
Data	10 columns, 14 rows
Headers	tshwane language mangaung cape_town ethekwini ekurhuleni non_metros buffalo_city johannesburg nelson_mandela_bay
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Data

tshwane	language	mangaung	cape_town	ethekwini	ekurhuleni	non_metros	buffalo_city	johannesburg	nelson_mandela_bay
100.0	Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
2.2	IsiXhosa	7.4	37.4	3.1	8.5	16.3	82.4	7.0	59.5
6.9	English	1.7	30.6	28.6	8.9	8.7	10.1	13.7	13.3
12.1	Afrikaans	10.8	26.1	0.8	7.3	10.6	5.3	3.8	24.7
4.5	Other	0.7	3.8	1.1	3.3	2.1	1.3	4.0	1.6
5.0	Sesotho	64.0	0.8	0.6	10.2	7.8	0.3	11.9	0.2
9.0	IsiZulu	0.6	0.5	65.6	35.7	24.4	0.3	28.9	0.3
9.2	Xitsonga	0.1	0.2	0.0	6.7	4.7	0.1	7.4	0.1
5.0	IsiNdebele	0.1	0.2	0.1	1.7	1.7	0.1	3.6	0.1
17.8	Setswana	14.3	0.2	0.0	2.6	8.3	0.0	7.7	0.0

Languages spoken in South Africa, by metro municipalities