25.4% ▲ +171.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Newnham · Suburb / Locality
Language in Newnham
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a quarter of the population in Newnham now speaks a language other than English at home. This shift has made the area far more linguistically diverse than the rest of Tasmania, with 25.4% of residents using a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 25.4% of people use another language at home, which is far above the state figure of 8.7%. This diversity is reflected in the 6.1% who speak little or no English, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas.
6.1% ▲ +37.2%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.5%
- 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 Newnham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60452/newnham/topic/language