Cowra, New South Wales

Languages spoken in Cowra

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.

Residents
12,288
Speak another language
379
Languages at home
45
Change since 2016
+70.0%

What languages besides English do people speak in Cowra?

None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.

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Punjabi

27 speakers

Its speaker count has more than tripled since 2016.

Greek

25 speakers

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

How far is Cowra from the City of Sydney on languages?

In the City of Sydney, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among New South Wales councils, Cowra ranks 87th.

Cowra
3.1%
City of Sydney
33.9%
New South Wales
25.7%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

Every council ranked, Cowra included.

Which parts of Cowra are most multilingual?

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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