31.4% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lake Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lake Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher share of people speak a language other than English in Lake Heights compared to the rest of the country. About 31.4% of residents use another language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse for its size.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Alongside this diversity, 5.9% of people speak little or no English, a figure a little above the New South Wales average. While 64.7% speak only English, the most common other languages are Arabic at 5.5% and Italian at 2.6%.
5.9% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12256/lake-heights/topic/language