6.3% ▲ +4.1%
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Light · State Electorate
Language in Light
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Light compared to the rest of the country. Only 6.3% of residents use another language at home, which is much lower than most other areas and barely changed since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 89.9% of the community. This helps explain why very few people—just 0.8%—speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below both the state and national rates.
0.8% ▼ -37.9%
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Light [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40028/light/topic/language