68.8% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.4%
- 2016: 68.7%
- 2021: 68.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Lewis · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Lewis
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Arabic is the most common language spoken at home in Mount Lewis, where nearly half of all residents use it. This creates a highly multilingual environment where 68.8% of people speak a language other than English, a figure far above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Arabic is spoken by 49% of residents, while English-only speakers make up just 27.1%. This diversity is reflected in the 10.8% of people who speak little or no English, which is well above the national figure of 3.4%.
10.8% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
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 Mount Lewis [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12785/mount-lewis/topic/language