6.6% ▲ +72.8%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cumbalum · Urban Centre
Language in Cumbalum
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Cumbalum compared to the rest of the state. While 89.9% of the population speaks only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 6.6% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The 6.6% of residents using another language is much higher than in most similar areas, though still far below the national figure of 22.3%. This linguistic diversity is modest, with only 0.3% of people speaking little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.3% ▼ -71.2%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Cumbalum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115050/cumbalum/topic/language