9.6% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cobaw · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cobaw
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for nearly everyone living in Cobaw. While a small group of residents speak another language at home, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the typical Victorian town.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas but far below the 27.6% seen across Victoria. Despite this, the area is very comfortable with English, as 0.0% of residents speak little or no English.
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.
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 Cobaw [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20587/cobaw/topic/language