3.4% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Glenfern · Suburb / Locality
Language in Glenfern
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue for daily life in Glenfern, where only 3.4% of people use another language at home. This is far below the national figure of 22.3%, making it one of the more linguistically uniform areas in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 90% of residents speak only English at home, which is well below the Tasmanian average. Despite this, the area has a higher rate of people speaking little or no English than most similar areas, though it remains well below the Australian 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Glenfern [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60231/glenfern/topic/language