55.2% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.0%
- 2016: 61.8%
- 2021: 55.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Eastlakes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Eastlakes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than half of the people in Eastlakes use a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure, creating a linguistically diverse area where only 38.4% of residents speak English only.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 55.2% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This diversity is reflected in the 10.0% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
10.0% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 10.0%
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 Eastlakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11371/eastlakes/topic/language