3.8% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Albany · Suburb / Locality
Language in Port Albany
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Port Albany compared to the rest of the country. Only 3.8% of residents use another language at home, which is 19 percentage points below the national figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 96.2% of the population. This means the area is far below the Western Australian average of 18.4% for non-English speakers, and notably, no one in the area reported speaking little or no English.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.1%
- 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 Port Albany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51257/port-albany/topic/language