2.6% ▲ +113.9%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Dodges Ferry - Lewisham · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for almost everyone in Dodges Ferry - Lewisham. Only 2.6% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken exclusively by 90.8% of residents. Very few people speak little or no English (0.1%), a figure that is about the same as the Tasmanian average and barely changed since 2016.
2.6% ▲ +113.9%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.1% ▼ -39.8%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Dodges Ferry - Lewisham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL614001/dodges-ferry-lewisham/topic/language