20.7% ▲ +64.7%
Higher than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hobart · Council (LGA)
Language in Hobart
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Hobart compared to most similar areas. Around 20.7% of residents use another language at home, a figure that has jumped 8.1 percentage points since 2011. This makes the city far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Tasmania.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 75% of residents, Mandarin is the most common other language at 6.1%. A small number of people, 1.7%, speak little or no English, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the Tasmanian figure.
1.7% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Hobart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA62810/hobart/topic/language