4.6% ▼ -92.8%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 64.7%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lake Macquarie · State Electorate
Language in Lake Macquarie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Lake Macquarie compared to most other areas. Only 4.6% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has fallen sharply since 2011. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 91.1% of the population, with only 0.5% of people speaking little or no English. This share of non-English speakers is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%, while other home languages include Mandarin, Italian, and Tagalog.
0.5% ▲ +14.5%
Lower than 85% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Lake Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10042/lake-macquarie/topic/language