6.1% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cowley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cowley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Cowley, where only 6.1% of people use another language at home. While this is higher than in many similar areas, it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Most residents communicate using a single language in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 81.7% of people speak only English, with Italian being the most common second language at 7.3%. Very few people struggle with English here, as 0.0% speak little or no English, which is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
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 Cowley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30737/cowley/topic/language