English was stated as the only language spoken at home by 95.1% of persons usually resident in Cowra. The most common languages other than English spoken at home were: Greek 0.2%, Arabic 0.2%, Italian 0.2%, Croatian 0.2% and German 0.1%.

89.9% of persons usually resident in Cowra stated they were born in Australia. Other common responses within Cowra were: England 1.5%, New Zealand 0.5%, Scotland 0.4%, Germany 0.3% and Netherlands 0.2%.

52.9% of persons aged 15 years and over usually resident in Cowra were married, 27.0% never married, 10.9% separated or divorced and 9.2% widowed.

* statistcs taken from the 2006 Census for postal area 2794 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics