7.3% ▲ +114.7%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Cowan · Urban Centre
Language in Cowan
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Cowan (L) use a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While the typical resident still speaks only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has more than doubled since 2011 to reach 7.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 91.2% of residents, and 0.0% of the population speaks little or no English, which is well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Cowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121025/cowan/topic/language