3.9% ▲ +95.6%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Scotts Head · Urban Centre
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people in Scotts Head now speak a language other than English at home, though the figure remains very low. Only 3.9% of residents use another language, which is far below both the state and national figures.
English and the largest community languages.
While English is spoken by 90.1% of the community, the share of people using another language rose 1.9 points since 2011. Despite this, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a figure well below the Australian average.
3.9% ▲ +95.6%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Scotts Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL121102/scotts-head/topic/language