6.8% ▲ +151.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scone · Suburb / Locality
Language in Scone
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way of communicating in Scone, where 87.6% of residents speak only this language at home. While a small number of people use other languages, the area is far less linguistically diverse than the typical Australian town.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 6.8% of people use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the 1.8% of residents who speak little or no English is much higher than in most similar areas.
1.8% ▲ +46.3%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Scone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13518/scone/topic/language