3.7% ▲ +26.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Skennars Head · Suburb / Locality
Language in Skennars Head
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the dominant way people communicate in Skennars Head, where very few residents use another language at home. Only 3.7% of people speak a non-English language, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 92.9% of people speak only English at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While 0.3% of residents speak little or no English—a rate higher than most similar areas—this remains well below the Australian average of 3.4%.
0.3% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Skennars Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13569/skennars-head/topic/language