2.5% ▲ +68.8%
Lower than 76% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
7140, TAS · Postcode
Language in 7140, TAS
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A tiny 2.5% of people in postcode 7140 use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia. English remains the dominant language spoken across the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is used by 91.1% of the population, and the 2.5% who speak another language at home is well below the Tasmanian average of 8.7%. Very few people—just 0.2%—speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.2% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 66% of postcode areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 7140, TAS [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA7140/7140-tas/topic/language