5.0% ▲ +186.1%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lyons (Rumney) · State Electorate
Language in Lyons (Rumney)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak a language other than English in Lyons (Rumney) compared to the rest of the country. Only 5% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.3% of the area. While the number of people using other languages rose to 5% since 2011, those who speak little or no English remain very few at 0.5%, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.5% ▲ +193.6%
Lower than 85% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Lyons (Rumney) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED60514/lyons/topic/language