47.0% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 91% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 46.1%
- 2021: 47.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lalor · Federal Electorate
Language in Lalor
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly half of all residents in Lalor speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most of the state, with a growing number of people using a variety of different languages in their daily lives.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 47% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. While Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin and Arabic are common, 5.6% of residents speak little or no English, though this figure fell from 10.4% in 2016.
5.6% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 84% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Lalor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED228/lalor/topic/language