4.3% ▼ -42.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cobdogla · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cobdogla
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people in Cobdogla use a language other than English at home compared to the rest of the country. Only 4.3% of residents speak another language, which is 18 percentage points below the national figure. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than most Australian towns.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 91.7% of residents, 2.9% speak Greek. Despite the low overall use of other languages, the 1.6% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.6% ▲ —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Cobdogla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40273/cobdogla/topic/language