19.3% ▲ +95.7%
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Clark · Federal Electorate
Language in Clark
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 10 percentage points more people in Clark now speak a language other than English at home than they did in 2011. This shift has seen 19.3% of the population using another language, a figure that is far above the Tasmanian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 76.2% of residents, though Mandarin (3.8%), Punjabi (1.2%), Cantonese (0.7%) and Vietnamese (0.7%) are also spoken. While the share of people using other languages has risen, the 1.9% who speak little or no English is only slightly above the Tasmanian figure.
1.9% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 52% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Clark [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED603/clark/topic/language