4.2% ▼ -24.3%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Loch Sport · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for almost everyone in Loch Sport. Only 4.2% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes it a very linguistically uniform place where very few residents struggle with English.
English and the largest community languages.
English-only speakers make up 88.7% of the population. This helps explain why the 0.0% of people who speak little or no English is well below both the state and national figures.
4.2% ▼ -24.3%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre 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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Loch Sport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221043/loch-sport/topic/language