2.8% ▲ +79.3%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cessnock · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cessnock
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Cessnock, where the proportion of people using other languages at home has barely changed since 2011. Only 2.8% of residents speak a language other than English, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English, making up 82.4% of the population. While the 0.4% who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, this is still well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
0.4% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10877/cessnock/topic/language