5.2% ▲ +22.5%
Lower than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lismore · Council (LGA)
Language in Lismore
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Lismore, where only 5.2% of people use another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages. The local community is very comfortable with English, with almost everyone speaking the language fluently.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people in Lismore speak little or no English, at just 0.4%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%. While 87.4% speak only English, the use of other languages like Italian and Punjabi has risen slightly since 2011.
0.4% ▼ -20.7%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14850/lismore/topic/language