4.8% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Colo · Suburb / Locality
Language in Colo
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people use a language other than English at home in Colo than in most similar areas, though the vast majority still speak only English. This keeps the community's linguistic profile very narrow, with 96.8% of residents speaking English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 4.8% of people use another language at home—a figure higher than most similar areas—this is still far below the New South Wales rate of 26.6%. No one in the area reported speaking little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Colo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10983/colo/topic/language