10.5% ▲ +189.7%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ooralea · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ooralea
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A much smaller share of people use a language other than English in Ooralea compared to the national figure. While 10.5% of residents speak another language at home, this is far below the Australian average of 22.3%. Most people here rely solely on English for their daily communication.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 83.4% of residents, though Tagalog is the most common non-English tongue at 1.5%. Very few people struggle with English, with only 0.7% speaking little or no English, which is a little below the Queensland figure.
0.7% ▼ -45.3%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Ooralea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32227/ooralea/topic/language