4.0% ▲ +70.8%
Lower than 67% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Macquarie-Hastings · Council (LGA)
Language in Port Macquarie-Hastings
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4% of people in Port Macquarie-Hastings use a language other than English at home, a figure far below the national average. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia. While this number has risen slightly since 2011, English remains the dominant language for the vast majority of residents.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 91.3% of the population, and very few people—just 0.4%—speak little or no English. This is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. Other languages spoken include Mandarin and Tagalog, though both are used by only 0.2% of residents.
0.4% ▲ +27.8%
Lower than 63% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Port Macquarie-Hastings [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA16380/port-macquarie-hastings/topic/language