31.6% ▲ +43.3%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ringwood · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ringwood
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much higher share of people speak a language other than English in Ringwood compared to the rest of the country. About 31.6% of residents use a different language at home, which is well above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse among similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 63.9% of people, while Mandarin (9.0%) and Cantonese (3.2%) are the most common other tongues. This diversity is reflected in the 7.1% of residents who speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% national average.
7.1% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Ringwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22174/ringwood/topic/language