7.3% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Augusta · Urban Centre
Language in Port Augusta
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Fewer people in Port Augusta have used a language other than English at home since 2011, with the figure falling to 7.3%. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains far below the national rate of 22.3%. English is the primary language for the vast majority of the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 80.4% of residents speak only English, while others use Punjabi, Italian, Mandarin or Vietnamese. Very few people—just 0.7%—speak little or no English, a figure that has fallen since 2016 and is a little below the national average of 3.4%.
0.7% ▼ -79.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Augusta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413003/port-augusta/topic/language