4.1% ▼ -45.7%
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Macquarie · State Electorate
Language in Port Macquarie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Very few residents speak a language other than English in Port Macquarie, placing it among the lowest for linguistic diversity at this level. Only 4.1% of people use another language at home, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 91.2% of the area. The proportion of people who speak little or no English is well below the national figure at just 0.4%, and this has barely changed since 2016.
0.4% ▲ +23.6%
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Macquarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10068/port-macquarie/topic/language