1.9% ▼ -56.8%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Germein · Suburb / Locality
Language in Port Germein
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few people speak a language other than English in Port Germein, making it less linguistically diverse than most similar areas. Only 1.9% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 86.7% of residents. While the share of people using other languages is low, the 1.4% who speak little or no English is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
1.4% ▲ +67.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Germein [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41196/port-germein/topic/language