4.8% ▲ +41.1%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Pirie · Urban Centre
Language in Port Pirie
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 89.3% of people in Port Pirie. While most residents speak only English, the proportion of people using another language at home has risen to 4.8% since 2011.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Around 4.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the national figure of 22.3%. Only 0.6% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
0.6% ▲ +78.5%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Pirie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413005/port-pirie/topic/language