3.5% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 3.5%
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.
English is the dominant language for 90.1% of people in Portland, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 3.5% of residents use another language at home, which is far below the national and state figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Just 0.2% of people speak little or no English, a figure well below the Australian average. This high level of English proficiency has barely changed since 2016, with other home languages like Tagalog and Mandarin each accounting for only 0.2% of the population.
0.2% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 50% of urban centre 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/ucl/UCL213012/portland/topic/language