21.6% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Roger River · Suburb / Locality
Language in Roger River
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Over one in five people in Roger River speak a language other than English at home. This is far above the Tasmanian figure, though it is about the same as the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 21.6% of residents use another language at home, this is much higher than in most similar areas. Despite this, no one in the community speaks little or no English, which is well below the national figure.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Roger River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60563/roger-river/topic/language