15.5% ▲ +490.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ripley · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ripley
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far more people in Ripley speak a language other than English at home than in most similar areas. While English is the main language for 78.6% of residents, about 15.5% use another tongue, making the area more linguistically diverse than many nearby places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 15.5% of people use a language other than English at home, which is a little above the Queensland figure of 13.2%. Common non-English languages include Punjabi (2.8%), Tagalog (1.1%), and Hindi (0.7%), though only 1.6% of residents speak little or no English.
1.6% ▲ +664.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Ripley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32433/ripley/topic/language