28.4% ▲ +52.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Mowbray · Suburb / Locality
Language in Mowbray
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Daily life in Mowbray is shaped by a high level of linguistic diversity. About 28.4% of residents speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the Tasmanian average. This makes the area one of the most multilingual places of its kind in the region.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 65.7% of people, while others commonly speak Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Tagalog. This diversity is reflected in the 6.1% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure that is well above the state average.
6.1% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.1%
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 Mowbray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60437/mowbray/topic/language