4.0% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scotts Head · Suburb / Locality
Language in Scotts Head
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for almost everyone in Scotts Head, making it far more linguistically uniform than the state average. Very few people here use a language other than English at home, with 90.7% of residents speaking only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.0% of people use another language at home, which is far below the figures for New South Wales and Australia. Despite this, the area is higher than most similar places for the share of people who speak little or no English, though the actual figure remains well below national levels at 0.0%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 Scotts Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13523/scotts-head/topic/language