3.6% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Skenes Creek · Suburb / Locality
Language in Skenes Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 83.1% of residents in Skenes Creek. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with very few people using a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.6% of people here use another language at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. Despite this, the proportion of people who speak little or no English is higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
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 Skenes Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22286/skenes-creek/topic/language