13.3% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oakville · Suburb / Locality
Language in Oakville
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Daily life in Oakville is mostly English-speaking, though it is more linguistically diverse than most similar areas. While 82.4% of residents speak only English, about 13.3% use another language at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
The share of people using a language other than English is much higher than in most similar areas, though it remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. Very few residents speak little or no English, at just 1.9%.
1.9% ▲ +21.9%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 Oakville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13071/oakville/topic/language