8.7% ▲ +95.3%
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Tasmania · State / Territory
Language in Tasmania
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for the vast majority of people across Tasmania. Only 8.7% of residents use another language at home, which is much lower than most other Australian states. While this figure is far below the national average, the number of people speaking other languages has risen by 4.3 percentage points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken exclusively by 86.1% of the population, with Mandarin being the most common other language at 1.5%. Very few people struggle with English here, as only 0.9% speak little or no English, a figure that is a little below the national average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.9% ▲ +7.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Tasmania [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/6/tasmania/topic/language