87.3% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 80.5%
- 2016: 90.0%
- 2021: 87.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Laramba · Urban Centre
Language in Laramba
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 87% of people in Laramba speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the national figure and has risen since 2011, making the community's linguistic profile much more diverse than most areas in Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 87.3% of residents use another language at home, only 8.5% now speak little or no English, which is a big drop from 37.7% in 2016. Only 8.5% of the population use English as their only language.
8.5% ▼ -77.5%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 8.5%
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 Laramba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722019/laramba/topic/language