Oak Beach · Suburb / Locality

Language in Oak Beach

The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.

English is the dominant tongue in Oak Beach, where only 4.3% of people use another language at home. This makes the area far less linguistically diverse than the rest of Australia, with almost everyone speaking English in their daily lives.

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📍 Oak Beach, Suburb / Locality

Languages at home

English and the largest community languages.

The typical resident speaks only English, with 87.1% of the population using it exclusively. Only 4.3% use another language at home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.2% and far below the national average.

4.3% ▼ -40.6%

Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.2%
  • 2016: 3.1%
  • 2021: 4.3%

Share of people who use a language other than English at home.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

Language used at home

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In Oak Beach, English only is the majority at 98%; Italian is next at 2%.

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 Oak Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32205/oak-beach/topic/language