14.5% ▲ +42.5%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Hedland · Council (LGA)
Language in Port Hedland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing mix of backgrounds defines daily life in Port Hedland, where the use of languages other than English has risen to 14.5%. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the figures for Western Australia and the nation.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 69.5% of residents, though Tagalog is the most common second language at 1.4%. Very few people here struggle with English, with only 1.1% speaking little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
1.1% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Hedland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57280/port-hedland/topic/language