Urdu
43 speakers
Between the last two censuses it has more than tripled.
Brighton, Tasmania
Languages spoken in Brighton
Brighton is overwhelmingly English-speaking: at the 2021 Census, about 530 people used another language at home, most often Urdu. The top two are almost level. Brighton's share is well under the share for Hobart. It's a community that grew fast between the last two censuses.
- Residents
- 18,913
- Speak another language
- 531
- Languages at home
- 37
- Change since 2016
- +151.7%
Which languages other than English are spoken in Brighton?
These three top a list of small communities.
How much less multilingual is Brighton than Tasmania?
Across Tasmania, the share speaking another language is more than double. 12 councils in Tasmania have a lower share.
- Brighton
- 2.8%
- Tasmania
- 7.8%
- Hobart
- 19.3%
Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.
Do Brighton's suburbs differ much?
Old Beach has the highest share of the 9 suburbs, but not by far.
Each suburb links to its own page, with the languages spoken there.
- Old BeachLed by Mandarin5%222
- Bridgewater (Tas.)Led by Urdu4%165
- Tea TreeLed by Hmong3%10
- Dromedary (Tas.)Led by Bengali2%15
- GagebrookLed by Telugu2%29
- Brighton (Tas.)Led by Spanish1%69
- Herdsmans CoveLed by Punjabi1%13
- PontvilleLed by Japanese1%5
- HoneywoodLed by Auslan1%3
- The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 9 suburbs listed.
ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021: language used at home, by Statistical Area Level 2, rolled up to Local Government Area. Change is measured from 2016.
How the headline share is counted: 2.8% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 1,060 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 8.4%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 3.0%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.
People with no usual address fall outside any suburb, which is why the national figure here is a fraction under the ABS one. The council figures aren't affected.
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