5.0% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Upper Scamander · Suburb / Locality
Language in Upper Scamander
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Upper Scamander, where 85% of residents speak only English at home. While slightly more people use a second language here than in similar areas, the community is far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 8.7%. Notably, no one in the area reported speaking 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 Upper Scamander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60709/upper-scamander/topic/language