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We are Circular Head

We are Circular Head.

Home to one of the larger Urdu-speaking communities in Tasmania, and 19 other language communities besides.

Our population
8,073
Speak another language
989
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+68.5%
20 languages are spoken at home in Circular Head. Urdu leads (117 speakers), with Mandarin close behind (24). 12 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 Urdu at home
117
Our largest community language, Urdu, is spoken by 1.4% of Circular Head residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Urdu
117 speakers

117 speakers, 1.4% of Circular Head.

Mandarin
24 speakers

24 speakers, 0.3% of Circular Head. +200% since 2021.

Dutch
22 speakers

22 speakers, 0.3% of Circular Head. +47% since 2021.

The languages of Circular Head

20 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.

Urdu
117 · 0.0%
Mandarin
24 · +200.0%
Dutch
22 · +46.7%
Russian
16 · -20.0%
Punjabi
16 · 0.0%
Filipino
14 · 0.0%
Spanish
10 · +66.7%
Samoan
8 · 0.0%
Estonian
8 · +166.7%
Sinhalese
7 · 0.0%
Korean
7
Igbo
6
Nepali
6
Gujarati
5
Swahili
5
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Urdu117 · 1.4%
    0.0%
  2. 02
    Mandarin24 · 0.3%
    200.0%
  3. 03
    Dutch22 · 0.3%
    46.7%
  4. 04
    Russian16 · 0.2%
    20.0%
  5. 05
    Punjabi16 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  6. 06
    Filipino14 · 0.2%
    0.0%
  7. 07
    Spanish10 · 0.1%
    66.7%
  8. 08
    Samoan8 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  9. 09
    Estonian8 · 0.1%
    166.7%
  10. 10
    Sinhalese7 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Korean7 · 0.1%
    63.2%
  12. 12
    Igbo6 · 0.1%
    0.0%
Fastest-growing among us
Mandarin
+200.0% 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
Where we are
In context
Circular Head
12.3%
Tasmania
13.3%
Australia
27.3%

12.3% of Circular Head residents speak a language other than English at home, against 13.3% for Tasmania and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.