8.2% ▲ +183.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lake Charm · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Lake Charm, where the 8.2% of people using another language at home is far below the national figure. This creates a linguistic profile that is much more uniform than the broader Australian community.
English and the largest community languages.
While 92.5% of residents speak only English, Punjabi is the most common second language at 2.0%. Notably, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a result that is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
8.2% ▲ +183.9%
Higher than 73% 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 Lake Charm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21430/lake-charm/topic/language