3.4% ▲ +10.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ocean Grove · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ocean Grove
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 92.7% of people in Ocean Grove. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of the country, with very few residents speaking a language other than English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 3.4% of residents use another language at home, a figure far below the national average of 22.3%. While slightly more people here speak little or no English than in most similar areas, this is still well below the Victorian figure of 4.4%.
0.2% ▼ -39.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Ocean Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22005/ocean-grove/topic/language