23.0% ▲ +32.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scullin · Suburb / Locality
Language in Scullin
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than one in five people in Scullin now speak a language other than English at home. This shift means the area is much more linguistically diverse than most similar places, with 23.0% of residents using another language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 72.6% of residents speak only English, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Arabic are common second languages. About 3.1% of people speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
3.1% ▼ -5.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 Scullin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80117/scullin/topic/language