12.3% ▼ -44.2%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Adelaide · State Electorate
Language in Port Adelaide
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant language for daily life in Port Adelaide, where only 12.3% of people use another language at home. This is well below the national figure, and the number of people using a second language has fallen significantly over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Most residents speak only English (83.7%), with Vietnamese being the most common second language at 2.5%. While 2.2% of people speak little or no English—a figure higher than most areas—this is 3 percentage points lower than it was in 2016.
2.2% ▼ -57.9%
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40037/port-adelaide/topic/language