3.4% ▲ +91.5%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lyons · Federal Electorate
Language in Lyons
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.4% of people in Lyons use a language other than English at home, though this is a slight increase from 2011. The area is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, with the vast majority of residents speaking English exclusively.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 90.7% of people at home, and only 0.3% speak little or no English, which is well below the national figure. Other languages spoken in the area include Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog, and Italian.
0.3% ▲ +84.2%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Lyons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED605/lyons/topic/language