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We are Central Highlands (Tas.)

We are Central Highlands (Tas.).

Home to one of the larger Nepali-speaking communities in Tasmania, and 9 other language communities besides.

Our population
2,406
Speak another language
274
Languages at home
10+
Growth since last census
+100.0%
10 languages are spoken at home in Central Highlands (Tas.). Nepali leads (10 speakers), with Punjabi close behind (7). 11 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Nepali at home
10
Our largest community language, Nepali, is spoken by 0.4% of Central Highlands (Tas.) residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Nepali
10 speakers

10 speakers, 0.4% of Central Highlands (Tas.).

Punjabi
7 speakers

7 speakers, 0.3% of Central Highlands (Tas.).

German
6 speakers

6 speakers, 0.2% of Central Highlands (Tas.). +100% since 2021.

The languages of Central Highlands (Tas.)

10 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.

Nepali
10 · 0.0%
Punjabi
7 · 0.0%
German
6 · +100.0%
Czech
5 · 0.0%
Sinhalese
4 · 0.0%
Tagalog
4 · 0.0%
Mandarin
4 · 0.0%
Auslan
3 · 0.0%
Japanese
3 · 0.0%
Hindi
3 · 0.0%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Nepali10 · 0.4%
    0.0%
  2. 02
    Punjabi7 · 0.3%
    0.0%
  3. 03
    German6 · 0.2%
    100.0%
  4. 04
    Czech5 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  5. 05
    Sinhalese4 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Tagalog4 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Mandarin4 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  8. 08
    Auslan3 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Japanese3 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  10. 10
    Hindi3 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
German
+100.0% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are
In context
Central Highlands (Tas.)
11.4%
Tasmania
13.3%
Australia
27.3%

11.4% of Central Highlands (Tas.) residents speak a language other than English at home, against 13.3% for Tasmania and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.