3.0% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coolgardie · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Coolgardie, where 97% of people speak only English at home. This is far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia, making it a place with very little linguistic diversity.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area is ranked higher than most similar places for people who speak little or no English, though this figure remains well below the state average at 0%.
3.0% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Coolgardie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11031/coolgardie/topic/language