31.4% ▲ +16.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Rivervale · Suburb / Locality
Language in Rivervale
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Nearly a third of people in Rivervale speak a language other than English at home, a figure far above the Western Australian average. This creates a diverse local environment where 31.4% of residents use another language, well above the national rate of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the only language spoken by 62.4% of residents, while others include Mandarin (4.9%), Cantonese (2.1%), and Arabic (1.6%). About 4.4% of people speak little or no English, which is a little above the state figure.
4.4% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 Rivervale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51299/rivervale/topic/language