3.2% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Riverleigh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Riverleigh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English remains the dominant tongue in Riverleigh, where very few residents use another language at home. Only 3.2% of people speak a language other than English, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.4% of the population. While 0.0% of people speak little or no English—a figure well below the Australian average—the area's use of other languages is far below the Queensland rate of 13.2%.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Riverleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32439/riverleigh/topic/language