4.7% ▲ +74.1%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burnie · Council (LGA)
Language in Burnie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as similar areas, Burnie is a place where English is the dominant language. Very few people speak a language other than English at home, though this figure rose to 4.7% in 2021.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home for 90.2% of residents, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This means very few people speak little or no English (0.5%), a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▲ +64.2%
Lower than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Burnie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA60610/burnie/topic/language