21.8% ▼ -43.9%
Higher than 62% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cook · Federal Electorate
Language in Cook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Cook, where 73.9% of people speak only English at home. While more people here use another language than in most similar areas, this figure has dropped significantly in recent years.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using another language at home fell by 17 percentage points since 2011 to reach 21.8%, which is well below the New South Wales figure. Greek is the most common second language at 5.1%, and 2.7% of residents speak little or no English.
2.7% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 62% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Cook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED109/cook/topic/language