28.3% ▲ +30.7%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lane Cove · Council (LGA)
Language in Lane Cove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of Lane Cove residents speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has risen by 6.7 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most other regions. While English remains the dominant tongue, the community has become increasingly multicultural over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 28.3% of people use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 5.6%, followed by Cantonese at 3.6%, while only 3.0% of residents speak little or no English.
3.0% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Lane Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14700/lane-cove/topic/language