8.4% ▲ +135.3%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Clarence · Council (LGA)
Language in Clarence
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 14 percentage points separates Clarence from the national average for language diversity, with only 8.4% of people using a language other than English at home. While this is higher than most similar areas, the own community remains overwhelmingly English-speaking.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 86.8% of residents, though the use of other languages rose by 4.8 percentage points since 2011. Very few people speak little or no English (0.8%), which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure.
0.8% ▲ +54.5%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Clarence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA61410/clarence/topic/language