46.4% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 46.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coombs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Coombs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Coombs speak a language other than English at home, marking a significant shift in the area's linguistic makeup. This diversity is far more pronounced than in the rest of the territory, with 46.4% of people using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the only language for 50.1% of the population, Mandarin, Punjabi, Arabic and Cantonese are also common. About 3.8% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the ACT figure.
3.8% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Coombs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80041/coombs/topic/language