6.4% —
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Sorell · Urban Centre
Language in Sorell
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Sorell now speak a language other than English at home. While 88.8% of the population only uses English, the proportion of those using another language rose by 4 percentage points since 2016 to reach 6.4%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using another language at home is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains far below the national figure of 22.3%. Very few people speak little or no English, at 0.5%, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure.
0.5% ▼ -29.6%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 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 Sorell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615025/sorell/topic/language