4.6% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lyons (Montgomery) · State Electorate
Language in Lyons (Montgomery)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Lyons (Montgomery) than in most similar areas. Only 4.6% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 87.7% of the population. Very few people struggle with English here, with only 0.3% speaking little or no English, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% —
Lower than 95% 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 (Montgomery) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60508/lyons/topic/language