17.7% ▲ +98.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Launceston · Suburb / Locality
Language in Launceston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 75.9% of people in Launceston. While most residents speak English, the city is more linguistically diverse than other Tasmanian areas, with 17.7% of people using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.7% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 8.7% but well below the national average of 22.3%. Other common languages include Mandarin, Punjabi, Cantonese and Vietnamese, though only 1.5% of people speak little or no English.
1.5% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Launceston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60322/launceston/topic/language