1.0% ▼ -58.8%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lockwood South · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lockwood South
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the sole language for 92.2% of people in Lockwood South. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with very few residents using a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 1% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. While a tiny number of people speak little or no English, this 0.5% is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.5% ▲ +52.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Lockwood South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21529/lockwood-south/topic/language