15.2% ▲ +83.4%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
South Hobart · Suburb / Locality
Language in South Hobart
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far higher share of South Hobart residents speak a language other than English at home compared to the Tasmanian average. While 15.2% of people here use another language, this remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. It is a linguistically diverse pocket of the city where English remains the primary tongue for 80.1% of people.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 15.2% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well above the Tasmanian figure. Mandarin is the most common second language at 3.5%, though very few people here speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 South Hobart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60615/south-hobart/topic/language