3.1% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lancefield · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Just 3.1% of people in Lancefield use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with the vast majority of residents speaking only English.
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.8% of the population. While a tiny fraction of residents speak little or no English (0.2%), this is actually higher than the figure for most similar areas.
3.1% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.2% ▲ +34.3%
Higher than 63% 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 Lancefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21456/lancefield/topic/language