4.6% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ripon (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Language in Ripon (Western Victoria)
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 86.8% of people in Ripon, making it a very linguistically uniform area. Only 4.6% of residents use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Very few people in Ripon use another language at home, though this rose slightly since 2016 to 4.6%. This is much lower than most areas, and the 0.6% who speak little or no English is well below the state figure.
0.6% ▲ +29.6%
Lower than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Ripon (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED27208/ripon/topic/language