2.8% ▲ +18.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Forest · Suburb / Locality
Language in Forest
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language in Forest, where 93.8% of people speak it exclusively. Only 2.8% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The proportion of people using another language at home is well below the Tasmanian average. While 0.0% of residents speak little or no English, this is about the same as the state figure.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60208/forest/topic/language