4.6% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lyons (Launceston) · State Electorate
Language in Lyons (Launceston)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Lyons (Launceston), where very few residents use another language at home. With only 4.6% of people speaking a language other than English, the area is far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The vast majority of people here speak only English (92.2%), which is well below the national figure for other languages. This is reflected in the fact that only 0.4% of residents speak little or no English, a figure much lower than most areas.
0.4% —
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
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 Lyons (Launceston) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60505/lyons/topic/language