9.2% ▲ +61.2%
Higher than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coffs Harbour · Council (LGA)
Language in Coffs Harbour
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Coffs Harbour, where 84.8% of people speak only English at home. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the state or national averages, the proportion of people using another language has risen to 9.2%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
People using another language at home rose to 9.2% since 2011, though this remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Alongside this, the 1.9% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.9% ▲ +29.1%
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Coffs Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA11800/coffs-harbour/topic/language