14.8% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Talawa · Suburb / Locality
Language in Talawa
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly 15% of people in Talawa speak a language other than English at home. This is well above the Tasmanian average, making the area much more linguistically diverse than most similar places. Despite this, everyone in the community speaks English to some level.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 14.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is well above the state figure of 8.7%. While this is well below the Australian average of 22.3%, 80.3% of people still speak English only.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 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 Talawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60664/talawa/topic/language