25.5% ▼ -31.9%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cooltong · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cooltong
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a quarter of people in Cooltong speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other parts of the state and the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.5% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the Australian figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the common use of Greek, Punjabi and Vietnamese, and 4.7% of people speak little or no English.
4.7% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 Cooltong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40299/cooltong/topic/language