2.6% ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
The Lagoon · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in The Lagoon compared to the rest of the state. Only 2.6% of residents use another language at home, which is 24 percentage points below the New South Wales figure.
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 88.8% of residents, and the area is well below the national figure for people who speak little or no English, with 0.0% in this category.
2.6% ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 The Lagoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13844/the-lagoon/topic/language