3.3% ▲ +69.3%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coffin Bay · Urban Centre
Language in Coffin Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for almost everyone in Coffin Bay, where 92.2% of people speak only English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state or the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.3% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure that is far below the national average. Despite this, the proportion of people using another language rose slightly by 1.4 percentage points since 2011, while those who speak little or no English have fallen to 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Coffin Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421007/coffin-bay/topic/language