50.5% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 56.8%
- 2021: 50.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lawson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lawson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 42.9% of people in Lawson, but more than half the population speaks another language at home. This is far above the national figure of 22.3%, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Over half of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far above the ACT average of 24.6%. Mandarin is the most common second language at 15.4%, and 4.3% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the territory average.
4.3% ▼ -66.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 4.3%
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 Lawson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80085/lawson/topic/language