Port Stephens, New South Wales

Which languages are spoken in Port Stephens?

The 2021 Census found one in 30 residents in Port Stephens speaking a language other than English at home, a small community in which Greek is the largest group. Only a small margin separates Spanish from the leader. The share for the City of Sydney is more than twice as high as Port Stephens'.

Residents: 74,708
Speak another language: 2,359
Languages at home: 76
Change since 2016: +34.3%

Which languages are heard at home in Port Stephens?

Small as they are, Greek, Spanish and Mandarin are the largest.

Greek

147 speakers

The community has grown by more than half since 2016.

Spanish

141 speakers

Between the last two censuses it has grown by more than a quarter.

Mandarin

137 speakers

It has grown by more than half since 2016.

How does Port Stephens compare with Australia as a whole?

Nationally, the share speaking another language is more than double. Port Stephens is 74th of 128 across New South Wales.

Port Stephens: 3.2%
Australia: 21.3%
City of Sydney: 33.9%

Share of residents speaking a language other than English at home, by the same method for every area.

Find Port Stephens on the diversity index.

Do Port Stephens' suburbs differ much?

Even across 38 suburbs, the shares stay within a narrow band, led by Heatherbrae.

Open any suburb for its own language breakdown.

Figures come from the ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021 (language used at home), aggregated from Statistical Area Level 2 to Local Government Area, with 2016 for comparison.

3.2% is the share of all residents who reported a language other than English. The 3,895 who didn't answer aren't counted as speakers. If they were, the share would be 8.4%; among respondents alone it's 3.3%.

Ranked lists skip broad categories such as "Chinese, nfd", which stay in the totals. National figures are summed from suburbs and sit a touch under the ABS release.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

Working on communication for Port Stephens? Talk to us about translation.