8.4% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lakelands · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lakelands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Lakelands compared to the state or national figures. While 8.4% of residents use another language at home, this is much lower than the 22.3% typical across Australia. English remains the dominant tongue for the vast majority of the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Nearly 90% of people speak only English at home, though 1% use Punjabi and around 1% use Mandarin or Cantonese. Only 1% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the national figure but much higher than most similar areas.
1.0% ▲ +53.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Lakelands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12265/lakelands/topic/language