4.6% ▼ -51.4%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cowley Beach · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language spoken in Cowley Beach, where 87.7% of people use it exclusively at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with very few residents using a language other than English.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.6% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Despite this, the area ranks higher than most similar places for people who speak little or no English, though the local figure remains at 0.0%.
4.6% ▼ -51.4%
Higher than 58% 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 Cowley Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30738/cowley-beach/topic/language