5.1% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Poatina · Suburb / Locality
Language in Poatina
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Poatina, where very few residents use another language. Only 5.1% of the population speaks a language other than English at home, making it a place with very little linguistic diversity.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 86.4% of people speak only English, the 5.1% who use another language is higher than in most similar areas. Despite this, no one in the area reports speaking little or no English, a figure that is well below the national average of 3.4%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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 Poatina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60509/poatina/topic/language