8.7% ▲ +41.8%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lorne · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lorne
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Lorne, though it is more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. While 81.8% of the community speaks only English, nearly 9% of residents use another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 8.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas, although far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This diversity is reflected in a mix of languages including Greek, Mandarin, and Punjabi, though only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +151.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 Lorne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21542/lorne/topic/language