4.0% ▲ +25.6%
Lower than 84% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Lincoln · Urban Area
Language in Port Lincoln
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Port Lincoln than in most similar areas. Only 4% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 88.2% of residents. While use of other languages rose slightly to 4% since 2011, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is very low at 0.3%, which is well below the Australian average.
0.3% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Port Lincoln [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4005/port-lincoln/topic/language