2.2% ▲ +59.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lake Cathie · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lake Cathie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people in Lake Cathie use a language other than English at home, making it much less linguistically diverse than most similar areas. English is the primary language for 94.6% of residents, with only 2.2% speaking another tongue.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 2.2% of people use another language at home, which is far below the state figure of 26.6%. While 0.3% of residents speak little or no English—a figure slightly higher than in most similar areas—this remains well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Cathie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12251/lake-cathie/topic/language