5.5% ▼ -55.2%
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cowper · Federal Electorate
Language in Cowper
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Cowper compared to the rest of the country. Just 5.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This marks a significant drop from 2011, when the figure was 12.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, which is used by 87.7% of residents. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.9% speaking little or no English—a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.9% ▲ +30.3%
Lower than 72% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Cowper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED110/cowper/topic/language