30.6% ▲ +683.6%
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 30.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lane Cove · State Electorate
Language in Lane Cove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A massive jump in linguistic diversity has defined Lane Cove since 2011, with the share of people using another language at home climbing by 27 percentage points. Today, 30.6% of residents speak a language other than English, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 65.2% of people speak only English, Mandarin and Cantonese are the most common other languages. This increase in diversity has not led to a spike in language barriers, as those who speak little or no English make up 3.6% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure.
3.6% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Lane Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10044/lane-cove/topic/language