9.5% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oyster Bay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Oyster Bay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Far fewer people speak a language other than English in Oyster Bay compared to the rest of the country. While 22.3% of Australians use another language at home, that figure is just 9.5% here, making it much lower than the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 88.3% of residents, though the use of other languages is much higher than in most similar areas. Only 1.0% of people speak little or no English, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 4.5%.
1.0% ▲ +22.2%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Oyster Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13123/oyster-bay/topic/language