61.8% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.5%
- 2016: 62.3%
- 2021: 61.8%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Riverwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Riverwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the most common language spoken at home in Riverwood, though it is used by only 31.3% of residents. This makes the area far more linguistically diverse than most, with a very high proportion of people using a language other than English daily.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 61.8% of people use another language at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This high diversity is reflected in the 19.1% who speak little or no English, a figure far above the 3.4% seen across Australia. Besides English, the most common languages are Mandarin (14.8%), Cantonese (13.0%), and Arabic (7.5%).
19.1% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 Riverwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13386/riverwood/topic/language