17.9% ▲ +101.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Nelson · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Nelson
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 77.4% of residents in Mount Nelson. While most people speak only English, the area is much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with nearly one in five people using another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 17.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%. Mandarin is the most common second language at 6.4%, and 1.6% of residents speak little or no English.
1.6% ▲ +34.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Mount Nelson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60430/mount-nelson/topic/language