2.5% ▼ -33.9%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Ocean Beach · Suburb / Locality
Language in Ocean Beach
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the primary language for 91.6% of people in Ocean Beach. This is a very high proportion compared to the rest of the country, where far fewer people use only English at home.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
Only 2.5% of residents speak another language at home, which is far below the national figure of 22.3%. Despite this, the area has a higher rate of people who speak little or no English than most similar areas, though it remains well below the Australian average.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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.
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 Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51175/ocean-beach/topic/language