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We are Port Lincoln

We are Port Lincoln.

Home to one of the larger Croatian-speaking communities in South Australia, and 36 other language communities besides.

Our population
14,265
Speak another language
1,466
Languages at home
15+
Growth since last census
+33.5%
37 languages are spoken at home in Port Lincoln. Croatian leads (73 speakers), with Tagalog close behind (46). 10 per cent of us speak a language other than English at home. That is the measure of a community that has not left its languages behind.
speak Croatian at home
73
Our largest community language, Croatian, is spoken by 0.5% of Port Lincoln residents at home.
What makes our community ours
Croatian
73 speakers

73 speakers, 0.5% of Port Lincoln. +59% since 2021.

Tagalog
46 speakers

46 speakers, 0.3% of Port Lincoln. +12% since 2021.

Punjabi
38 speakers

38 speakers, 0.3% of Port Lincoln. +90% since 2021.

The languages of Port Lincoln

37 languages carry the conversation at home. Every one of them is spoken here.

Each block below is scaled to the number of people who speak that language at home, and tinted by how fast that community has grown since the last census.

Croatian
73 · +58.7%
Tagalog
46 · +12.2%
Punjabi
38 · +90.0%
Mandarin
31 · +93.8%
Filipino
30 · -3.2%
Italian
27 · -47.1%
Spanish
22 · +69.2%
Greek
21 · -8.7%
German
18 · +12.5%
Vietnamese
15 · 0.0%
Gujarati
12 · 0.0%
French
12 · -33.3%
Portuguese
12 · 0.0%
Bislama
11 · 0.0%
Yoruba
8 · +166.7%
GROWTH ≥ 50%
≥ 20%
≥ 5%
≥ 0%
≥ -10%
DECLINING
  1. 01
    Croatian73 · 0.5%
    58.7%
  2. 02
    Tagalog46 · 0.3%
    12.2%
  3. 03
    Punjabi38 · 0.3%
    90.0%
  4. 04
    Mandarin31 · 0.2%
    93.8%
  5. 05
    Filipino30 · 0.2%
    3.2%
  6. 06
    Italian27 · 0.2%
    47.1%
  7. 07
    Spanish22 · 0.2%
    69.2%
  8. 08
    Greek21 · 0.1%
    8.7%
  9. 09
    German18 · 0.1%
    12.5%
  10. 10
    Vietnamese15 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  11. 11
    Gujarati12 · 0.1%
    0.0%
  12. 12
    French12 · 0.1%
    33.3%
Fastest-growing among us
Yoruba
+166.7% since last census

We publish this so our residents can see themselves counted, and so the agencies, funders and neighbours who serve us can see who we actually serve. Language access is not a translation line-item in our budget. It is how an emergency notice reaches a grandparent, how an enrolment form is understood, and how a health campaign actually lands in the suburbs that make up our council.

Our suburbs

Our linguistic character changes street by street. Click through to any suburb for its own portrait: the languages spoken there, the communities calling it home.

Where we are
In context
Port Lincoln
10.3%
South Australia
20.5%
Australia
27.3%

10.3% of Port Lincoln residents speak a language other than English at home, against 20.5% for South Australia and 27.3% nationally. Drawn from the 2021 census.