1.1% ▼ -65.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Lower Portland · Suburb / Locality
Language in Lower Portland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 1.1% of people in Lower Portland use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country. Nearly everyone here speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 89.2% of residents, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average. While no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, this is still higher than most similar areas.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Lower Portland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12421/lower-portland/topic/language