24.7% ▲ +75.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Moonah · Suburb / Locality
Language in Moonah
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher share of people speak a language other than English in Moonah compared to the rest of Tasmania. About 24.7% of residents use another language at home, which is far above the state figure and a little above the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 70.8% of people speak only English, others use Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese or Hindi. This linguistic variety is reflected in the 3.3% who speak little or no English, a figure that is a little above the Tasmanian average.
3.3% ▼ -30.7%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.3%
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 Moonah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60419/moonah/topic/language