2.5% ▲ +127.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lorne · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lorne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Lorne, where 91.7% of people speak only this language at home. This level of linguistic uniformity is far below the New South Wales average, making it a very homogenous area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.5% of residents use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. Despite this, the area has a higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, although this is still well below the state figure.
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 Lorne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12399/lorne/topic/language