10.0% ▲ +91.2%
Higher than 74% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Launceston · Urban Area
Language in Launceston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of 12 percentage points separates Launceston from the national average for non-English speakers. While 10% of people here use another language at home, this is much higher than most other areas in Tasmania. This linguistic diversity has grown significantly, with the figure rising by 4.8 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 85.5% of residents, though other spoken languages include Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Cantonese. Very few people—just 1.5%—speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.5% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 77% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Launceston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/6004/launceston/topic/language