64.7% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.7%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 64.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lockhart River · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lockhart River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A huge 64.7% of people in Lockhart River speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas, marking the community as linguistically diverse.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 64.7% use another language and only 23.1% speak English only, very few struggle with English, as only 1.7% speak little or no English. This is much higher than most areas but about the same as the Queensland figure.
1.7% ▲ —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Lockhart River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31673/lockhart-river/topic/language