6.2% ▲ +50.3%
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lockyer · State Electorate
Language in Lockyer
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 6.2% of people in Lockyer use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other Australian regions. While English remains the dominant tongue, the proportion of people using other languages has risen slightly since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 87.4% of residents, which is well below the Queensland and national figures for language diversity. Around 1.4% of people speak little or no English, a rate that is about the same as the state average but has risen since 2016.
1.4% ▲ +154.1%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.4%
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/sed/SED30043/lockyer/topic/language