10.9% —
Lower than 54% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Hedland · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Port Hedland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way people communicate in Port Hedland, where only 10.9% of residents use another language at home. This figure is far below the national average, making the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English, which is 75.5% of the population. Very few people have trouble communicating in English, with only 0.7% speaking little or no English—a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
0.7% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 67% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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/sa2/510021269/port-hedland/topic/language