6.6% ▲ +75.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Prospect Vale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Prospect Vale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant tongue in Prospect Vale, where 89.7% of residents speak only this language at home. While more people here use a second language than in most similar areas, the overall proportion remains far below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 6.6% of people use another language at home, which is a little below the Tasmanian average. Very few residents struggle with English, with only 0.6% speaking little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the rest of the state.
0.6% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60525/prospect-vale/topic/language