9.7% ▲ +21.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rippleside · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower share of people speak another language at home in Rippleside than across Victoria or Australia. While 9.7% of residents use a language other than English, this is still much higher than in most similar areas.
English and the largest community languages.
Most people here speak only English (87.5%), and very few—just 0.4%—speak little or no English. This is well below the national figure of 3.4%, though the small number of non-English speakers is higher than in similar areas.
9.7% ▲ +21.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.4% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality 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 Rippleside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22178/rippleside/topic/language