Coolangatta · Suburb / Locality

Language in Coolangatta

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant language for daily life in Coolangatta, where 95.4% of people speak only this language at home. Very few residents use another language, making it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state.

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📍 Coolangatta, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Only 3.7% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 26.6%. While 0.0% of the population speaks little or no English, this is still higher than most similar areas.

3.7% ▲ +80.9%

Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.0%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 3.7%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

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.

Language used at home

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In Coolangatta, English only is the majority at 99%; Italian is next at 1%.

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 Coolangatta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11026/coolangatta/topic/language