3.4% ▼ -46.5%
Lower than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Portland · Urban Area
Language in Portland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
The proportion of people speaking a language other than English in Portland has halved since 2011, falling to just 3.4%. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the state and the country. Most residents speak only English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.4% of people use another language at home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This is reflected in the very small number of people who speak little or no English, at just 0.2%, a figure that is among the lowest for similar areas.
0.2% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Portland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2014/portland/topic/language