Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)
31 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
Cowra, New South Wales
The 2021 Census found about 380 people in Cowra speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) is the largest group. Only a small margin separates Punjabi from the leader. Cowra's share is well under the share for New South Wales.
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
31 speakers
That's fewer than one in 100 residents.
27 speakers
Its speaker count has more than tripled since 2016.
25 speakers
The community has grown by more than a quarter since 2016.
In the City of Sydney, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among New South Wales councils, Cowra ranks 87th.
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Every suburb here has a page of its own.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
The headline 3.1% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 946 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 10.8%, while measuring only those who answered gives 3.3%.
Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.
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