42.0% ▲ +39.5%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 42.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mawson Lakes · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mawson Lakes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Forty-two per cent of people in Mawson Lakes use a language other than English at home, a figure far above both the state and national averages. This makes it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in its class, where nearly half the population speaks a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 54.8% of residents, while Vietnamese (4.9%), Mandarin (4.7%), Punjabi (4.1%) and Hindi (2.2%) are also common. About 5% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the national figure.
5.0% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Mawson Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40844/mawson-lakes/topic/language