26.9% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lovely Banks · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lovely Banks
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 27% of people in Lovely Banks use a language other than English at home, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind. This variety is seen in the range of languages spoken daily, from Italian and Greek to Punjabi and Vietnamese.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 26.9% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. While this is among the highest for similar areas, the 3.7% who speak little or no English is about the same as the Victorian and national averages.
3.7% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.7%
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 Lovely Banks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21544/lovely-banks/topic/language