21.8% ▲ +22.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Middle Cove · Suburb / Locality
Language in Middle Cove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people have shifted to using a language other than English at home in Middle Cove since 2011. While English remains the main tongue for 76.7% of residents, over a fifth of the community now speaks another language, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 21.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Cantonese (5.9%) and Mandarin (4.4%) being the most common. About 3.1% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
3.1% ▲ +21.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Middle Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12613/middle-cove/topic/language