3.7% ▲ +239.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scarborough · Suburb / Locality
Language in Scarborough
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Around the middle for its level compared to similar areas, Scarborough is a place where English is the dominant language spoken at home. Very few residents use a language other than English, with 93.5% of the population speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.7% of people use another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. While 0.0% speak little or no English, this is actually higher than most similar areas, despite being well below the New South Wales average of 4.5%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Scarborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13515/scarborough/topic/language