2.4% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lakewood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lakewood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Lakewood, where the proportion of people speaking other tongues has stayed very low. Only 2.4% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 91.9% of the community. While the area has a higher rate of people speaking little or no English than most similar areas, the figure is still well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Lakewood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12268/lakewood/topic/language