6.0% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Needles · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 84% of people in Needles. While the area has a slightly higher rate of people using other languages at home than most similar places, it remains far less linguistically diverse than the national average.
English and the largest community languages.
About 6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is a little below the Tasmanian figure. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
6.0% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Needles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60447/needles/topic/language