10.7% ▲ +56.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lara · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Lara, where 80.2% of people speak only this language at home. While the area is much more diverse than most similar places, it remains far less multilingual than the Victorian and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.7% of residents use another language at home, with Punjabi and Tagalog being the most common after English. This is much higher than most similar areas, though only 1.2% of people speak little or no English.
1.2% ▲ +40.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Lara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21469/lara/topic/language