Central Highlands, Tasmania

Languages spoken in Central Highlands (Tas.)

In Central Highlands, the 2021 Census counted 2 per cent of residents speaking a language other than English at home, led by Nepali and Punjabi. Every language besides English has fewer speakers than one resident in 100. The share for Tasmania is more than twice as high as Central Highlands'.

Residents: 2,406
Speak another language: 49
Languages at home: 11
Change since 2016: +716.7%

Which languages other than English are spoken in Central Highlands?

These three top a list of small communities.

Nepali

10 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Punjabi

7 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

German

6 speakers

Its speaker count has more than doubled since 2016.

What sets Central Highlands apart from Australia as a whole?

Central Highlands' share is less than half the national share. 9 councils in Tasmania have a lower share.

Central Highlands (Tas.): 2.0%
Australia: 21.3%
Tasmania: 7.8%

Same method throughout, so the gap between the bars is the real gap.

See where Central Highlands sits on the diversity index.

Where in Central Highlands are other languages most common?

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

MienaLed by Nepali5%21
Ellendale (Tas.)Led by German4%14
Hamilton (Tas.)Led by Punjabi2%11
OuseLed by Hindi1%3
Bothwell0%0
Arthurs Lake0%0
The larger figure is each suburb's share speaking a language other than English; the smaller is people. 6 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: 2.0% is residents who named a language other than English, as a share of everyone. Another 225 didn't answer the question. Counting them as speaking another language would give 11.4%; leaving them out of the population altogether gives 2.2%. Higher figures quoted elsewhere usually come from one of those.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

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