8.5% ▲ +139.7%
Lower than 58% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hobart - North East · Sub-region (SA3)
Language in Hobart - North East
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About the same as most similar areas, Hobart - North East has a small percentage of residents who speak a language other than English. While English is the primary tongue for the vast majority, the number of people using another language at home rose by 5 percentage points since 2011 to reach 8.5%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.7% of the population, with Mandarin (1.5%) and Punjabi (0.6%) as the next most common languages. Only 0.8% of people speak little or no English, which is lower than most areas and slightly below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.8% ▲ +57.6%
Lower than 65% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Hobart - North East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/60102/hobart-north-east/topic/language