16.3% ▲ +120.7%
Higher than 60% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Lakes · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in North Lakes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than 16% of people in North Lakes use a language other than English at home, making the area more linguistically diverse than most. This trend has grown steadily over the last decade, though the proportion of people who struggle with English remains very low.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 16.3% of residents speak another language—a figure well above the Queensland average—only 1.5% speak little or no English. Most people speak English only (79.6%), but the most common other languages are Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin and Tagalog.
1.5% ▲ +44.4%
Higher than 53% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 North Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31402/north-lakes/topic/language