Lara, Greater Geelong
What Lara speaks at home
Most homes in Lara speak only English. At the 2021 Census, about 1,900 people used another language, most often Punjabi. That count has grown by more than half since 2016. For the wider picture, Greater Geelong has a page of its own.
- Residents
- 19,035
- Speak another language
- 9.9%+56.5%
- Languages spoken
- 60
- Born overseas
- 15.6%
What languages do people in Lara speak besides English?
Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languages
- 01Punjabi270+429%
- 02Tagalog155+64.9%
- 03Vietnamese125+34.4%
- 04Croatian113-14.4%
- 05Filipino85+10.4%
- 06Serbian83+80.4%
- 07Italian82-15.5%
- 08Macedonian72+18.0%
- 09Arabic68+240%
- 10Mandarin56-29.1%
Is Lara more multilingual than Australia as a whole?
Lara's share is below Australia as a whole.
- Lara
- 9.9%
- Victoria
- 26.6%
- Australia
- 21.3%
Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, by suburb and locality. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.
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Lara is part of Greater Geelong, which has its own page with every suburb compared. For material in these languages, get a quote for translation.