2.7% ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cessnock · Urban Centre
Language in Cessnock
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 2.7% of people in Cessnock used a language other than English at home in 2021, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 85.9% of the population, and the proportion of people using other languages is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, this is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.4% ▲ +14.3%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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).
More for Cessnock
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Cessnock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112005/cessnock/topic/language