Languages spoken in South Africa, by metro municipalities | |
| Category | Demographics |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |