7.6% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Red Cliffs · Suburb / Locality
Language in Red Cliffs
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Red Cliffs, where 83.9% of residents speak only this language. While most people use English, a small number of residents speak other languages, making the area more linguistically diverse than many similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 7.6% of people use a language other than English at home, which is higher than in most similar areas, though far below the Victorian figure of 27.6%. This includes small groups speaking Italian, Mandarin and Punjabi, with 1.8% of residents speaking little or no English.
1.8% ▲ +120.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 Red Cliffs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22147/red-cliffs/topic/language