10.8% ▲ +191.5%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cooper · State Electorate
Language in Cooper
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way people communicate in Cooper, where 86.6% of residents speak only English at home. While the area is far less linguistically diverse than the national average, the proportion of people using another language has risen significantly over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the Australian figure. This group has grown from just 3.7% in 2011, though very few people (0.8%) speak little or no English.
0.8% ▲ +7.8%
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Cooper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30023/cooper/topic/language