26.7% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 26.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lugarno · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lugarno
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over a quarter of the population in Lugarno speaks a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than the national average. While English is the most common language, there is a strong presence of several other global languages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.7% of residents use another language at home, which is among the highest for similar areas. While 71.2% speak only English, Greek is the most common second language at 6.4%, followed by Arabic, Mandarin and Cantonese. Only 3.0% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most areas.
3.0% ▲ +19.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Lugarno [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12430/lugarno/topic/language