4.1% ▲ +69.5%
Lower than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Burnie - Somerset · Urban Area
Language in Burnie - Somerset
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary tongue for 90.7% of people in Burnie - Somerset. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the national average, though the share of people using a language other than English has risen slightly over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.1% of residents use another language at home, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 8.7% and far below the own Australian average of 22.3%. This is reflected in the very small number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.4%.
0.4% ▲ +48.2%
Lower than 84% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Burnie - Somerset [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/6001/burnie-somerset/topic/language