9.9% ▲ +168.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Prospect · Suburb / Locality
Language in Prospect
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Prospect (Tas.) now speak a language other than English at home compared to previous years. While 84.4% of residents speak only English, nearly 10% of the population uses another language, which is a much higher proportion than in most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.9% of people use a language other than English at home, slightly above the Tasmania figure of 8.7%. While 1.3% speak little or no English—which is much higher than most similar areas—this remains a little below the national figure of 3.4%.
1.3% ▲ +35.4%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Prospect [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60524/prospect/topic/language