16.7% ▼ -12.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Lawley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Lawley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people speak a language other than English in Mount Lawley than in most similar areas. While 16.7% of residents use another language at home, this is still well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most residents use English only, though there is a diverse mix of other languages spoken.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Italian is the most common second language at 2.5%, followed by Vietnamese and Mandarin at 1.5%. While 1.6% of people speak little or no English—which is much higher than in most similar areas—this is a little below the Australian average of 3.4%.
1.6% ▼ -37.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Mount Lawley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51021/mount-lawley/topic/language