17.9% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lathlain · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lathlain
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Lathlain have started speaking a language other than English at home since 2011. While 78.2% of residents speak only English, nearly one in five people here use another language, making the area more diverse than most similar suburbs.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. Mandarin is the most common non-English language at 2.9%, while only 1.7% of residents speak little or no English.
1.7% ▼ -36.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Lathlain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50835/lathlain/topic/language