Cobar, New South Wales

Languages spoken in Cobar

In Cobar, the 2021 Census counted 147 people speaking a language other than English at home, led by Punjabi and Afrikaans. Every language besides English has fewer speakers than one resident in 100. The share nationally is at least twice Cobar's.

Residents
4,032
Speak another language
147
Languages at home
35
Change since 2016
+6.5%

Who speaks something other than English in Cobar?

Punjabi leads a short list of small communities.

Punjabi

20 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Afrikaans

13 speakers

The community has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

Mandarin

11 speakers

Its speaker count has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016.

What sets Cobar apart from New South Wales?

The share for New South Wales is more than twice as high as Cobar's. 63 councils in New South Wales have a lower share.

Cobar
3.6%
New South Wales
25.7%
Australia
21.3%

Residents speaking a language other than English at home, as a share of all residents.

Cobar's place on the diversity index.

How even is Cobar from suburb to suburb?

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.

Blank answers matter here. 596 residents gave none, and they're left out of the 3.6%. Count them in and it's 18.4%; drop them from the base and it's 4.3%.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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