18.6% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lysterfield · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lysterfield
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 79.2% of people in Lysterfield. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 22.3% for those who use another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 18.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, with Mandarin being the most common non-English tongue at 3.6%. Only 1.9% of people speak little or no English, which is a little below the Victorian rate of 4.4%.
1.9% ▲ +26.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Lysterfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21558/lysterfield/topic/language