41.9% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.7%
- 2016: 41.8%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oakleigh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Oakleigh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Hearing a variety of languages is common in Oakleigh, where 41.9% of residents speak something other than English at home. This is far above the national figure of 22.3%, making it one of the most linguistically diverse areas of its kind.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Greek is the most common non-English language at 13.3%, followed by Mandarin at 6.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 7.4% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the Australian average of 3.4%.
7.4% ▼ -10.1%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 7.4%
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 Oakleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22000/oakleigh/topic/language