4.7% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Southport · Suburb / Locality
Language in Southport
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Southport, where only 4.7% of people speak another language at home. This is far below the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia. While most residents use English, a small number of people speak little or no English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 68.8% of people use English only, while 1.9% speak Vietnamese. Although the proportion of people using other languages is far below the national figure, the 2.3% who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.3% ▲ +34.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Southport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70242/southport/topic/language