35.3% ▲ +12.7%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lane Cove North · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lane Cove North
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of people in Lane Cove North use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, with 35.3% of residents speaking a non-English language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Mandarin (6.3%) and Cantonese (4.8%) are the most common non-English languages spoken here. While language diversity is well above the state average, the 3.9% who speak little or no English is about the same as the national figure.
3.9% ▼ -21.8%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 3.9%
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 Lane Cove North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12276/lane-cove-north/topic/language