8.2% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coomboona · Suburb / Locality
Language in Coomboona
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Coomboona, where only 8.2% of people use another language at home. While this is higher than most similar areas, it is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (76.1%), with Punjabi being the next most common language at 3.0%. Despite the low overall use of other languages, the 4.5% of people who speak little or no English is among the highest for areas of this type.
4.5% ▲ —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 Coomboona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20626/coomboona/topic/language