14.0% ▲ +29.7%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cossack · Suburb / Locality
Language in Cossack
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 68.5% of people in Cossack. While this is a high proportion, 14% of the community uses another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Roughly 14% of people use a language other than English at home, though this is well below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Australian average.
0.9% ▼ -40.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Cossack [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70065/cossack/topic/language