4.7% ▲ +380.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scotchtown · Suburb / Locality
Language in Scotchtown
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Scotchtown, where the proportion of people using other languages has risen since 2011. While slightly more diverse than many similar areas, the place is far less linguistically varied than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 4.7% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than most similar areas but far below the Australian figure of 22.3%. English is spoken by 89.4% of the population, and no one in the area speaks little or no English.
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 Scotchtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60591/scotchtown/topic/language