3.4% ▼ -80.8%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scenic Rim · State Electorate
Language in Scenic Rim
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3.4% of people in Scenic Rim speak a language other than English at home, a figure that has fallen 14 points since 2011. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than most of Australia. English is the dominant language for the vast majority of the population.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few residents struggle with English, with only 0.4% speaking little or no English, a figure well below the national average. English is spoken by 89.8% of people at home, while others speak languages such as Mandarin, Italian, Tagalog, and Punjabi.
0.4% ▼ -89.5%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Scenic Rim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30075/scenic-rim/topic/language