3.0% ▲ +15.9%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Riddells Creek · Urban Centre
Language in Riddells Creek
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 3% of people in Riddells Creek use a language other than English at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Victoria or Australia. The local language profile has remained very stable over the last decade.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the dominant language for 93.8% of residents, with only 0.2% speaking little or no English. This is well below the national figure of 3.4% and is consistent with the fact that very few people here use a language other than English.
0.2% ▼ -59.0%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Riddells Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215071/riddells-creek/topic/language