5.7% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Costerfield · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A higher proportion of people use a language other than English at home in Costerfield than in most similar areas. While 5.7% of residents speak another language, this is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia. English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of the community.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 94.3% of residents, while Italian is the only other language represented at 4.3%. Despite the local trend, 0.0% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the national and state figures.
5.7% —
Higher than 63% 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 Costerfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20652/costerfield/topic/language