9.4% ▲ +65.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Riverside · Suburb / Locality
Language in Riverside
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 87.2% of Riverside residents. While most people speak only English, the area has a much higher rate of people using other languages at home than most similar places.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.4% of people use a language other than English at home, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure. This includes small numbers of Mandarin, Punjabi, Cantonese and Vietnamese speakers, though only 0.9% of residents speak little or no English.
0.9% ▲ +7.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Riverside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60557/riverside/topic/language