22.0% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lockleys · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lockleys
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Language use in Lockleys has stayed largely consistent with national patterns, though it remains more diverse than much of South Australia. About 22% of people here use a language other than English at home, which is well above the state average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 75.7% of residents speak only English, Greek and Italian are the most common other languages. This diversity is higher than in most similar areas, although the 2.7% who speak little or no English is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.7% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.7%
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 Lockleys [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40775/lockleys/topic/language