3.8% ▼ -42.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lancaster · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lancaster
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by almost everyone in Lancaster, where only 3.8% of people use another language at home. This is far below the figures for Victoria and Australia, making the area much less linguistically diverse than the state or national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 84.7% of residents speak only English, with Italian being the most common other language at 3.0%. While the area has a higher proportion of people speaking little or no English than most similar areas, this figure remains well below the state and national totals at 0.0%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Lancaster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21454/lancaster/topic/language