21.5% ▲ +103.8%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
New Town · Suburb / Locality
Language in New Town
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far more diverse mix of languages is heard in New Town than in most other Tasmanian areas. About 21.5% of people here use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than the state average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is the main language for 73.8% of residents, 21.5% speak another tongue, including Mandarin, Punjabi, and Hindi. This is far above the Tasmania figure of 8.7%, and about the same as the national average.
2.2% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 New Town [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60451/new-town/topic/language