1.6% ▲ +44.7%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cargo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cargo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the sole language for 92.9% of people in Cargo. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is lower than most areas, 0.5% of people speak little or no English.
0.5% ▲ —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Cargo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10812/cargo/topic/language