5.4% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lismore · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lismore
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A tiny 5.4% of people in Lismore use a language other than English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. This makes Lismore much less linguistically diverse than the state or national average, though it still sits higher than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 83.0% of residents, with small numbers speaking Italian or Mandarin. Only 0.6% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is well below the state average.
0.6% ▼ -41.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12353/lismore/topic/language