24.1% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ripponlea · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ripponlea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Much higher proportions of people speak a language other than English in Ripponlea compared to most similar areas. While 24.1% of residents use another language at home, this figure is still well below the Victorian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 72.1% of the area, followed by Greek at 2.5% and Vietnamese at 1.2%. A small number of people speak little or no English (2.2%), which is much higher than in most similar areas.
2.2% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Ripponlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22179/ripponlea/topic/language