3.0% ▼ -37.6%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Portland · Urban Centre
Language in Portland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people use a language other than English at home in Portland than in most similar areas. Only 3% of residents speak another language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This trend has continued since 2011, as the proportion of non-English speakers fell by 1.8 percentage points.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language used by 87.7% of residents. This helps explain why 0% of the population speaks little or no English, a figure that is well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
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/ucl/UCL115121/portland/topic/language