5.2% ▲ +15.9%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lakes Entrance · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lakes Entrance
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Lakes Entrance, where 85.3% of people speak only English at home. While more people here use another language than in most similar areas, this figure remains far below the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5.2% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. Only 0.5% of people speak little or no English, a result that is well below the state average.
0.5% ▼ -26.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
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 Lakes Entrance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21449/lakes-entrance/topic/language