31.9% ▼ -21.4%
Higher than 76% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 45.4%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cooper · Federal Electorate
Language in Cooper
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 10 percentage points more people in Cooper speak a language other than English at home compared to the national figure. While 31.9% of residents use another language, this is a drop from 40.6% back in 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Common languages used at home include Greek (5.6%), Italian (5.2%), and Mandarin (3.1%). About 5.9% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure and is a slight decrease since 2016.
5.9% ▼ -31.4%
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Cooper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED208/cooper/topic/language