20.4% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lucas · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lucas
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Lucas compared to most similar areas. While 20.4% of residents use another language at home, this is still a little below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.7% of residents, but Punjabi (2.8%), Mandarin (2%) and Hindi (1.2%) are also spoken. Only 1.6% of people speak little or no English, which is much higher than most similar areas but a little below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
1.6% ▼ -41.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Lucas [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21550/lucas/topic/language