17.9% ▲ +68.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
North Lakes · Suburb / Locality
Language in North Lakes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 78.7% of people in North Lakes. However, the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with nearly one in five residents speaking another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.9% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. While Punjabi and Mandarin are the most common non-English languages at 1.5% each, only 1.5% of people speak little or no English.
1.5% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 North Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32178/north-lakes/topic/language