Mandarin
1,296 speakers
Mandarin is spoken by 1,296 of our residents at home, 3.3% of Kingborough.
We are Kingborough
10 per cent.
About 10 in every 100 Kingborough residents speak a language other than English at home, across 71 languages.
- Our population
- 39,109
- Speak another language
- 3,930
- Languages at home
- 71
- Growth since last census
- +116.6%
3,930 of us — 10.0% — speak a language other than English at home, most often Mandarin, Nepali and Spanish. A share this size is easy to design around by accident, which is precisely how it gets designed out.
In Tasmania
#3
of 29 Tasmania councils for the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. #162 of 540 nationally.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
248 speakers
Nepali is spoken by 248 of our residents at home, 0.6% of Kingborough.
Spanish
218 speakers
Spanish is spoken by 218 of our residents at home, 0.6% of Kingborough.
The languages of Kingborough
71 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.
Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.
- Grew 50%+
- 25%+
- 10%+
- Held
- Slipped
- Declined 10%+
- Not comparable
Every language, in order
Speakers at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016. Broader ABS categories such as “Chinese, nfd” are counted in our totals but left out of this list, so the percentages can exceed the sum of the languages shown.
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+293.9% since last census
We share this portrait because Kingborough is, genuinely, not an “average” council. Services designed for the median Tasmania resident arrive here in the wrong language. This almanac exists so that nobody writing policy about us — federal, state, corporate or media — can say they did not know.
Mandarin grew 293.9% since the last census, to 1,296 speakers. A community growing at that rate is one whose translation needs are ahead of the last set of figures anyone commissioned.
Who we are, beyond language
Where we were born
19.3% of us were born overseas, across 88 countries.
- 01England2,168+2.1%
- 02China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)1,129+378%
- 03New Zealand500+25.3%
- 04South Africa410+55.3%
- 05Netherlands289-4.3%
- 06India264+116%
- 07United States of America258+50.0%
- 08Nepal258+4200%
- 09Scotland216-4.8%
- 10Germany208+2.0%
What we believe
Reported affiliation in Kingborough at the 2021 Census, with the change since 2016.
- 01No religion or secular beliefs21,160+40.2%
- 02Christianity15,014-8.8%
- 03Buddhism430+51.4%
- 04Hinduism428+328%
- 05Islam233+140%
- 06Judaism24+100%
Our suburbs
Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any of our 26 suburbs for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.
- Kingston (Tas.)Top language — Mandarin18%2,183
- TaroonaTop language — Mandarin11%337
- Blackmans BayTop language — Mandarin10%729
- Kingston BeachTop language — Nepali8%186
- HuntingfieldTop language — Spanish6%33
- South BrunyTop language — Nepali6%38
- ConinghamTop language — Thai6%18
- ElectronaTop language — Japanese4%27
- KetteringTop language — Russian4%48
- Birchs BayTop language — German4%9
- Margate (Tas.)Top language — Mandarin4%170
- SnugTop language — German4%50
- Leslie ValeTop language — Korean4%14
- HowdenTop language — Afrikaans4%26
- TinderboxTop language — Spanish3%11
- Bonnet HillTop language — Russian3%13
- Woodbridge (Tas.)Top language — German2%13
- SandflyTop language — French2%3
- Apollo Bay (Tas.)Top language — Indonesian2%6
- LongleyTop language — German2%4
- Lower SnugTop language — Spanish1%5
- Allens RivuletTop language — French1%7
- Middleton (Tas.)0%0
- Oyster Cove (Tas.)0%0
- Gordon (Tas.)0%0
- Neika0%0
- 26 suburbs in Kingborough. Percentage is residents speaking a language other than English at home; the figure beneath it is how many people that is.
Where we are
Kingborough shaded by the share of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.
In context
- Kingborough
- 10.0%
- Tasmania
- 7.8%
- Australia
- 21.3%
10.0% of Kingborough residents speak a language other than English at home, against 7.8% for Tasmania and 21.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 Census.
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.
How the headline share is counted. 10.0% is 3,930 residents as a share of all 39,109 of us. A further 1,214 did not state a language at all, and we do not count them as speaking one — counting every non-response as a non-English speaker would put this figure at 13.2%, which is a larger number and a weaker claim. Measured only across the residents who answered, the share is 10.4%. If you have seen a higher figure quoted for Kingborough, it is almost certainly one of those two.
Two further caveats we would rather state than bury. Summing suburbs omits residents not allocated to one — no usual address, migratory and unincorporated areas — so national totals sit a little under the ABS published figures; the Kingborough figures on this page are unaffected. And ranked language lists exclude ABS residual categories such as “Chinese, nfd”, which are not languages anyone can order a translation in; they remain inside the headline total.
Need this community reached in its own languages? Talk to us about translation in Kingborough.