13.1% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.1%
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.
English is the dominant tongue in Scarborough, where only 13.1% of people use another language at home. While this is much higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. Most residents share a common language, making the area less linguistically diverse than the wider state.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 80.7% of people speak only English, with small numbers also speaking Italian and Mandarin. Only 1% of residents speak little or no English, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 2.3%.
1.0% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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/SAL51330/scarborough/topic/language