15.1% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cook · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Cook
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Cook, where 81.1% of people use it as their only language at home. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than both the territory and the nation. The proportions of people speaking other languages have barely changed over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 15.1% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well below the national figure of 22.3%. This is consistent with the fact that very few people—just 1.5%—speak little or no English, a figure a little below the Australian average.
1.5% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Cook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801011005/cook/topic/language