10.8% ▲ +95.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Launceston · Urban Centre
Language in Launceston
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 84.5% of people in Launceston. While most residents speak only English, the number of people using another language at home has nearly doubled since 2011 to reach 10.8%. This makes Launceston more linguistically diverse than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 10.8% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure and far below the national average. English remains dominant, followed by smaller groups speaking Mandarin, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Cantonese. Only 1.6% of people speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.6% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.6%
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/ucl/UCL611001/launceston/topic/language