2.4% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lima East · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Lima East, where very few residents use a different tongue at home. Only 2.4% of people speak another language, making it far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria.
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 91.5% of the population, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This reflects a lack of linguistic variety, as 0.0% of residents speak little or no English.
2.4% —
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% 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 Lima East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21506/lima-east/topic/language