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Cooya Beach · Urban Centre

Language in Cooya Beach

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

English is the primary way people communicate in Cooya Beach, where 83.3% of residents speak only this language. While most speak English, there has been a steady rise in the variety of languages heard around the neighbourhood over the last decade.

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📍 Cooya Beach, Urban Centre

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

About 8.7% of people use a language other than English at home, a figure that rose from 3.4% in 2011. This is much higher than most similar areas, though still far below the Australian average of 22.3%.

People using another language at home

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8.7% ▲ +157.6%

Higher than 84% 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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0.4% ▼ -30.4%

Higher than 58% 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 Cooya Beach, English only is the majority at 97%; Tagalog is next at 1%.

English only 83.3% Tagalog 1.2% Italian 1.0% Mandarin 0.4% Vietnamese 0.4%

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 Cooya Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321033/cooya-beach/topic/language