4.0% ▲ +36.8%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oxley Island · Suburb / Locality
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 93.5% of people on Oxley Island. This means the island is far less linguistically diverse than the state and national averages, with very few residents speaking a language other than English.
English and the largest community languages.
Only 4.0% of people use another language at home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 26.6%. Notably, no one in the area speaks little or no English, a result well below the national figure of 3.4%.
4.0% ▲ +36.8%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Oxley Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13120/oxley-island/topic/language