5.7% ▲ +53.5%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Tamar · Council (LGA)
Language in West Tamar
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 5.7% of people in West Tamar use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much more linguistically uniform than the rest of the country, though the number of people speaking other languages has risen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 89.9% of the population. While a small number of residents speak languages like Mandarin or Punjabi, very few—just 0.5%—speak little or no English, which is about the same as the state figure.
0.5% ▲ +41.8%
Lower than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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 West Tamar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA65810/west-tamar/topic/language