11.1% ▲ +93.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lockyer · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lockyer
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in ten people in Lockyer use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than most similar areas. While this reflects a diverse mix of speakers, the proportion of people using other languages remains far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 81.4% of residents, though Tagalog is the most common second language at 2.9%. About 2.5% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian and national averages.
2.5% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 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 Lockyer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50858/lockyer/topic/language