2.0% ▲ +67.3%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Kootingal · Urban Centre
Language in Kootingal
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating in Kootingal, where only 2% of people use another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 92.6% of residents, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 26.6% for other languages. Very few people struggle with English here, with just 0.3% speaking little or no English.
0.3% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Kootingal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115092/kootingal/topic/language