13.1% ▲ +62.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mount Stuart · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mount Stuart
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Mount Stuart now speak a language other than English at home. While English remains the main language for 84% of residents, the area is more linguistically diverse than most similar places in Tasmania.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 13.1% of people use another language at home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%. Most common non-English languages include Mandarin, Arabic, Punjabi and Cantonese, though only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +41.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Stuart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60434/mount-stuart/topic/language