8.1% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lilydale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lilydale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Lilydale compared to the rest of Victoria. While 8.1% of residents use another language at home, this is much lower than the state and national figures. Most residents speak only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 88.8% of the area, while Italian is the most common second language at 1.4%. Only 0.9% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the Victorian average but much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Lilydale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21504/lilydale/topic/language