7.5% ▲ +54.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
West Launceston · Suburb / Locality
Language in West Launceston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English in West Launceston compared to the rest of the country. Only 7.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 7.5% of people use another language at home, this is higher than most similar areas. Very few residents struggle with English, with only 0.6% speaking little or no English, a figure that is about the same as the Tasmanian average.
0.6% ▼ -45.5%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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 West Launceston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60734/west-launceston/topic/language