3.5% ▼ -0.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Blackstone Heights · Suburb / Locality
Language in Blackstone Heights
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Blackstone Heights, where the number of people using other languages at home has barely changed since 2011. Very few residents speak a language other than English, with 95.9% of the community using only English daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.5% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While this is well below the Tasmanian average, the 0.4% who speak little or no English is actually higher than most similar areas.
0.4% ▲ —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Blackstone Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60052/blackstone-heights/topic/language