1.9% ▼ -77.5%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Denison - Dongara · Urban Centre
Language in Port Denison - Dongara
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A sharp drop in the use of non-English languages has occurred in Port Denison - Dongara since 2011. Only 1.9% of people now use a language other than English at home, which is far below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language here, spoken by 87.4% of residents. Very few people speak little or no English (0.3%), a figure that is well below the national average and has barely changed since 2016.
0.3% ▼ -40.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Denison - Dongara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515031/port-denison-dongara/topic/language