36.5% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 81% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oatley - Hurstville Grove · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Language in Oatley - Hurstville Grove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More than a third of residents in Oatley - Hurstville Grove use a language other than English at home. This figure has risen by 6.5 percentage points since 2011, making the area far more linguistically diverse than the Australian average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 36.5% of people speak another language at home, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. While English is most common at 60.7%, Mandarin (10.0%) and Cantonese (6.0%) are the next most used, and 5.6% of people speak little or no English.
5.6% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
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 Oatley - Hurstville Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/119031371/oatley-hurstville-grove/topic/language