Flinders, Tasmania

Languages spoken in Flinders (Tas.)

Thai is the most common language after English in Flinders, though only 18 people speak anything other than English at home, the 2021 Census found. On its own, no other language reaches one in 100. Nationally, a language other than English is at least twice as common.

Residents
911
Speak another language
18
Languages at home
3
Change since 2016
+350.0%

What languages besides English do people speak in Flinders?

The largest communities are small, but they're here: Thai, German and French.

Thai

7 speakers

That's fewer than one in 100 residents.

German

4 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

French

3 speakers

About 0.3 per cent of all residents.

How far is Flinders from Hobart on languages?

In Hobart, the share speaking another language is more than double. Among Tasmania councils, Flinders ranks 26th.

Flinders (Tas.)
2.0%
Hobart
19.3%
Australia
21.3%

Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.

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Where in Flinders are other languages most common?

The suburb names link through to their own figures.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home by Statistical Area Level 2, aggregated to Local Government Area. Growth compares 2021 against the 2016 Census.

2.0% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 59 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 8.5%; among respondents alone it's 2.1%.

National totals here run slightly under ABS published figures, because summing suburbs misses people without a usual address. Broad ABS categories count in the totals but not in the ranked lists.

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