17.8% ▲ +95.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lenah Valley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lenah Valley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
About 80% of people in Lenah Valley speak only English at home. While this is common, the area is actually more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with nearly 18% of residents using a language other than English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language, but 17.8% of people use another tongue at home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%. Mandarin is the most common alternative language at 2.7%, and while 1.7% of residents speak little or no English, this is still much higher than in most similar areas.
1.7% ▲ +27.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Lenah Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60331/lenah-valley/topic/language