5.2% —
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Macquarie · Urban Centre
Language in Port Macquarie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way of communicating for the vast majority of people in Port Macquarie. Only 5.2% of residents use another language at home, a figure that is far below the national average. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most other parts of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 90.2% of people speak only English, and those who speak little or no English make up just 0.5% of the population. While these figures are well below the New South Wales and national averages, they are actually higher than in many similar areas.
0.5% —
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
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/ucl/UCL112017/port-macquarie/topic/language