5.3% ▲ +229.4%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Midway Point · Urban Centre
Language in Midway Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is spoken by 90.5% of people in Midway Point, making it a place where very few residents use another language at home. While this is far below the national figure, the proportion of people speaking other languages has risen to 5.3% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 0.5% of residents speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Tasmania figure. Aside from English, the most common languages spoken are Mandarin, Arabic, Punjabi and Vietnamese.
0.5% ▲ +147.3%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Midway Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615015/midway-point/topic/language