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Coonamble · Urban Centre

Language in Coonamble

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Language use in Coonamble has remained very stable since 2011, with only 2.9% of people speaking a language other than English at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.

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📍 Coonamble, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

English is the primary language for 83.1% of the community, while only 0.2% of residents speak little or no English. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%, and the proportion of people using other languages at home has barely changed over the last decade.

People using another language at home

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2.9% ▲ +35.1%

Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

People who speak little or no English

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0.2% ▲ +19.3%

Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.

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.

Language used at home

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In Coonamble, English only is the majority at 99%; Mandarin is next at 0%.

English only 83.1% Mandarin 0.3% Tagalog 0.2% Vietnamese 0.1% Punjabi 0.1% Greek 0.1%

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 Coonamble [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115044/coonamble/topic/language