25.7% ▲ +32.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cockburn Central · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cockburn Central
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a quarter of people in Cockburn Central speak another language at home, which is well above the national figure. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 67.4% speak only English, 25.7% use another language at home, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi and Hindi. Around 2.6% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most other areas.
2.6% ▼ -29.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Cockburn Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50304/cockburn-central/topic/language