5.3% ▲ +32.1%
Lower than 77% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lake Macquarie - East · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Lake Macquarie - East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people use a language other than English at home in Lake Macquarie - East compared to the rest of the country. Only 5.3% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other Australian regions.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.1% of the population, and the 0.6% who speak little or no English is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%. While the use of other languages rose 1.3 percentage points since 2011, the most common non-English languages remain rare, such as Mandarin at 0.4%.
0.6% ▲ +12.9%
Lower than 72% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Lake Macquarie - East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/11101/lake-macquarie-east/topic/language