65.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lake Powell · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lake Powell
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over half of residents in Lake Powell use a language other than English at home, making it a linguistically diverse area. With 65.1% of people speaking another language, the community is far more multilingual than the typical Victorian or Australian town.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by only 29.1% of residents, while Mandarin is a common second language at 9.3%. This high level of diversity is reflected in the fact that 25.6% of people speak little or no English, a figure far above the national average of 3.4%.
25.6% —
Higher 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.
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 Lake Powell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21441/lake-powell/topic/language