44.0% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 44.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ottoway · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ottoway
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A staggering 44% of people in Ottoway speak a language other than English at home, which is far above the national figure of 22.3%. This makes the area one of the most linguistically diverse in the region, where nearly half the population uses a second language.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the main language for 51.5% of residents, but Vietnamese is common at 19.7%, followed by Tagalog at 3.8%. This diversity is reflected in the 12.3% of people who speak little or no English, a figure well above the 3.4% national average.
12.3% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 12.3%
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 Ottoway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41081/ottoway/topic/language