17.5% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mella · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mella
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A higher proportion of people now speak a language other than English in Mella than in previous years. About 17.5% of residents use a different language at home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 68.0% of residents speak only English, 17.5% use another language at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This is reflected in the 3.1% who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the state average. Tagalog is the most common non-English language spoken here at 3.1%.
3.1% ▲ —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Mella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60393/mella/topic/language