3.1% ▲ +94.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lochinvar · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 3.1% of people in Lochinvar use a language other than English at home, making it far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages. This reflects a community where English is the dominant tongue for the vast majority of residents.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 91.4% of the population. While the proportion of people speaking little or no English is higher than most similar areas, at 0.4% it remains well below the Australian figure of 3.4%.
3.1% ▲ +94.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -4.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Lochinvar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12377/lochinvar/topic/language