Nepali
26 speakers
About 0.4 per cent of all residents.
George Town, Tasmania
Languages other than English in George Town
The 2021 Census found one in 50 residents in George Town speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Nepali is the largest group. None of those languages reaches one resident in 100. In Hobart, the share speaking another language is more than double.
- Residents
- 7,061
- Speak another language
- 131
- Languages at home
- 24
- Change since 2016
- +74.7%
What's spoken in George Town apart from English?
None of these reaches one in 100 residents on its own.
Where does George Town sit against Australia as a whole?
The national share is more than twice as high as George Town's. George Town is 25th of 29 across Tasmania.
- George Town
- 1.9%
- Australia
- 21.3%
- Hobart
- 19.3%
Each bar uses the same count: residents who named another home language, over all residents.
Do George Town's suburbs differ much?
The suburb names link through to their own figures.
- George TownLed by Nepali2%106
- HillwoodLed by German2%9
- Mount DirectionLed by Hindi1%6
- Low HeadLed by Igbo1%7
- Pipers RiverLed by German1%3
- Weymouth0%0
- Pipers Brook0%0
- 7 suburbs, ordered by the share speaking another language at home, with the head count underneath.
Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.
The headline 1.9% counts only residents who named a language other than English. 420 people left the question blank; treat every blank as another language and the figure is 7.8%, while measuring only those who answered gives 2.0%.
Language lists name languages only; residual ABS groups are in the totals. Summed-suburb national totals run a little low.
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