44.5% ▲ +21.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 44.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oatlands · Suburb / Locality
Language in Oatlands
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Almost 45% of people in Oatlands speak a language other than English at home, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This linguistic diversity is far above the national figure of 22.3%, making it a multilingual hub within Parramatta.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 51.9% of residents speak only English, 44.5% use another language, including Arabic (9%), Mandarin (8.3%), and Cantonese (5.7%). This diversity is reflected in the 6.7% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
6.7% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 Oatlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13074/oatlands/topic/language