5.2% ▲ +465.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dover · Suburb / Locality
Language in Dover
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Dover compared to the national figure. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, that figure drops to just 5.2% in this area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English, representing 88.2% of the population. Very few people struggle with the language, as only 0.7% speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure.
0.7% ▼ -57.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60165/dover/topic/language