4.1% ▲ +90.5%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cowra · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cowra
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for the vast majority of people in Cowra, where only 4.1% of residents speak another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Daily life here is linguistically very uniform compared to most other parts of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 88.8% of people use only English, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6% for those using another language. While only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.6% ▲ +60.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Cowra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11099/cowra/topic/language