6.2% ▲ +192.1%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Coolgardie · Urban Centre
Language in Coolgardie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Coolgardie than in most similar areas. While 6.2% of residents use another language at home, this is still far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home rose 4.1 percentage points since 2011. However, very few people speak little or no English here, at just 0.5%, which is a little below the national figure.
0.5% ▼ -77.0%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Coolgardie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521014/coolgardie/topic/language