English Language Skills, Census 2022

Chart showing English language skills of people in Aberdeenshire, Moray, Aberdeen City, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Scotland as a whole.

Note: Chart above has a lower value of 70%, to more clearly show the small proportion of the population that does not speak, read and write English. Figures less than 1% omitted, but shown in the table below.

Also note that the figures here are for people aged 10 and older. The standard table begins with age 3, but literacy among young children is low, which skews the picture slightly. Age 10 was selected as a starting point because this is where the figures became similar to those of older age groups.

(people aged 10+)

	Speaks, Reads and Writes English		Understands or Speaks English		Reads or Writes English		Limited or No English Skills
Aberdeen City	192862	95%	4645	2%	2734	1%	3324	2%
Aberdeenshire	227882	97%	4368	2%	487	0.2%	1891	1%
Moray	81774	97%	1691	2%	140	0.2%	492	1%
Edinburgh	23500	96%	675	3%	46	0.2%	249	1%
Glasgow	526661	94%	16192	3%	4194	1%	13535	2%
Scotland	4316632	96%	102610	2%	12790	0.3%	44077	1%