5.3% ▲ +146.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Midway Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Midway Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Midway Point, where only 5.3% of people use another language at home. While this is higher than most similar areas, it is far below the national figure. The area is very linguistically uniform, with 90.5% of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people here struggle with English, as only 0.5% speak little or no English. This is about the same as the Tasmanian average, though it remains higher than in most similar areas.
0.5% ▲ +69.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Midway Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60404/midway-point/topic/language