3.3% ▲ +22.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lockyer Waters · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lockyer Waters
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant language in Lockyer Waters, with only 3.3% of people speaking another language at home. This figure is far below the national average and well below the Queensland figure, reflecting a very high level of linguistic uniformity for the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Almost 90% of residents speak only English at home, which is far below the 22.3% national figure for other languages. Despite this, the 0.9% of people who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
0.9% ▲ +73.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Lockyer Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31676/lockyer-waters/topic/language