2.6% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Swan Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Swan Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 88.2% of people in Swan Bay. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.6% of people here use another language at home, which is well below the Tasmanian figure and far below the national average. Despite this, the area is noted as having a higher proportion of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though it remains well below the Australian average at 0.0%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Swan Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60658/swan-bay/topic/language