4.6% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Orient Point · Suburb / Locality
Language in Orient Point
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary way people communicate in Orient Point, where very few residents use a different language at home. Only 4.6% of the population speaks a language other than English, which is far below both the state and national figures.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 88.7% of people at home, and the 0.6% who speak little or no English is a figure higher than most similar areas, though still well below the New South Wales average.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Orient Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13107/orient-point/topic/language