11.1% ▲ +75.6%
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Bass (Windermere) · State Electorate
Language in Bass (Windermere)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people are speaking languages other than English in Bass (Windermere), with the figure rising 4.8 percentage points since 2011. About 11.1% of residents now use a different language at home, which is a little above the Tasmanian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While English is used by 82.5% of the population, the share of people speaking another language is far below the national figure of 22.3%. A small number of residents speak Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese or Arabic, and 2.1% speak little or no English, which is higher than most other areas.
2.1% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Bass (Windermere) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60115/bass/topic/language