15.1% ▲ +104.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Hobart · Urban Centre
Language in Hobart
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A gap of over 6 percentage points separates Hobart from the rest of Tasmania in the number of people using a language other than English at home. While 15.1% of residents speak another language, this figure remains well below the national average of 22.3%. The city has become more linguistically diverse, with the proportion of non-English speakers rising by 7.7 points since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most people in Hobart speak only English (80.3%), though Mandarin is the most common other language at 3.1%. Around 1.5% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas and has barely changed since 2016.
1.5% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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 Hobart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL603001/hobart/topic/language