18.7% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Lakes · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Lakes
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly one in five people in West Lakes speak a language other than English at home. This makes the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, though it remains less diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 78.9% of residents speak only English, Italian and Greek are the most common other languages. About 18.7% use another language at home, which is much higher than most areas; however, only 2.5% of people speak little or no English.
2.5% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.5%
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 West Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41568/west-lakes/topic/language