26.6% ▲ +50.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest Lodge · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest Lodge
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of Forest Lodge residents speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas at its level, though most people here still speak English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.6% of people use another language at home, a rate that is about the same as the New South Wales average. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 7.3%, and 2.5% of the population speak little or no English, which is much higher than most areas.
2.5% ▼ -27.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 Forest Lodge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11549/forest-lodge/topic/language