2.7% ▲ +15.7%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Portland West · Suburb / Locality
Language in Portland West
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Portland West compared to the rest of the state. Only 2.7% of residents use another language at home, which is about 25 percentage points below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used at home for 93.7% of the population. While 0.5% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most similar areas—this remains well below the national figure of 3.4%.
0.5% ▲ —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 Portland West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22112/portland-west/topic/language