1.5% ▼ -9.2%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coolamon · Suburb / Locality
Language in Coolamon
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 93.7% of residents in Coolamon. This makes it a very linguistically uniform area where only 1.5% of people use another language at home, a figure far below both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1.5% of people in Coolamon use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. While this is lower than most areas, 0.3% of residents speak little or no English, which is higher than the usual rate for similar places.
0.3% ▲ +93.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.1%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Coolamon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11025/coolamon/topic/language