Lurnea · Suburb / Locality

Language in Lurnea

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

Arabic and English are the most common languages spoken in Lurnea, with 32.1% and 32.2% of people using them at home. This creates a highly multilingual environment where more than half the population speaks a language other than English.

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Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

Nearly 59% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This diversity is reflected in the 13.5% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the New South Wales average.

58.9% ▲ +13.3%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 52.0%
  • 2016: 56.2%
  • 2021: 58.9%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

13.5% ▲ +12.9%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 11.9%
  • 2021: 13.5%

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.

Language used at home

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Lurnea splits fairly evenly between English only (43%) and Arabic (43%), with Vietnamese at 6%.

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 Lurnea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12431/lurnea/topic/language