4.5% ▲ +41.0%
Lower than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cobar · Council (LGA)
Language in Cobar
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for 80.8% of people in Cobar. This means far fewer residents speak another language at home compared to the rest of the state and the nation. While this figure has risen slightly over the last decade, the area remains very linguistically uniform.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Very few residents struggle with English, as only 0.5% speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Cobar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11750/cobar/topic/language