12.8% —
Higher than 56% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Greater Hobart · Capital City
Language in Greater Hobart
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of nearly 10 percentage points separates Greater Hobart from the national average in language diversity. While 12.8% of people here use a language other than English at home, this is well above the Tasmanian figure but remains well below the Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 82.6% of residents, though the number of people using another language at home rose 5.2 percentage points since 2016. The most common non-English languages are Mandarin at 2.6%, Punjabi at 0.7%, and Cantonese at 0.5%.
1.3% ▲ +8.4%
Lower than 54% of capital city areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Greater Hobart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/gccsa/6GHOB/greater-hobart/topic/language