3.4% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
River Heads · Urban Centre
Language in River Heads
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 93.6% of people in River Heads. This high level of English usage makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.4% of residents use another language at home, a figure that is far below the national average of 22.3%. This trend has barely changed since 2011, and only 0.3% of people speak little or no English.
0.3% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 River Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315084/river-heads/topic/language